Étienne Fouvry

Étienne Fouvry (French pronunciation: [etjɛn fuvʁi]) is a French mathematician working primarily in analytic number theory.[1]

Étienne Fouvry
Fouvry in 1986
Born1953
Nationality France
Alma materUniversity of Bordeaux
AwardsSophie Germain Prize (2021)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Paris-Sud
Thesis Repartitions des suites dans les progressions arithmetiques  (1981)
Doctoral advisorsJean-Marc Deshouillers, Henryk Iwaniec
Websitewww.math.u-psud.fr/~fouvry/

Fouvry defended his dissertation in 1981 at the University of Bordeaux under the joint direction of Henryk Iwaniec and Jean-Marc Deshouillers.[2] He is an emeritus professor at Paris-Saclay University and the 2021 recipient of the Sophie Germain Prize.[1]

In 1985, Fouvry showed that the first case of Fermat's Last Theorem is true for infinitely many primes.[3]

References
  1. "Étienne Fouvry: Hunting for prime numbers". Paris-Saclay University. 4 February 2022. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
  2. Étienne Fouvry at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. Fouvry, Étienne (1985). "Théorème de Brun-Titchmarsh: application au théorème de Fermat" [The Brun-Titchmarsh theorem: application to the Fermat theorem]. Invent. Math. (in French). 79 (2): 383–407. Bibcode:1985InMat..79..383F. doi:10.1007/BF01388980. MR 0778134. S2CID 122719070.


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