Michel Talagrand, Abel Prize 2024

Michel Pierre Talagrand (born 15 February 1952) is a French mathematician. Docteur ès sciences since 1977, he has been, since 1985, Directeur de Recherches at CNRS and a member of the Functional Analysis Team of the Institut de Mathématique of Paris. Talagrand was elected as correspondent of the Académie des sciences of Paris in March 1997, and then as a full member in November 2004, in the Mathematics section. In 2024, Talagrand received the Abel Prize.

Talagrand studies mainly functional analysis and probability theory and their applications.

Awards

• Peccot Lectures of the French Collège de France (1980)
• Peccot-Vimont Prize of the French Collège de France (1980)
• Servant Prize of the French Académie des sciences (1985)
• Invited Speaker to the International Congress of Mathematicians (Kyoto 1990)[4]
• Loève Prize in Probability (1995)
• Fermat Prize for mathematical research (1997)
• Corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences (1997)
• Plenary Speaker to the International Congress of Mathematicians (Berlin 1998)[5]
• Member of the French Academy of Sciences (2004)
• Chevalier of the Order of the Legion of Honor (2011)
• Shaw Prize in mathematics (2019)
• Stefan Banach Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2022)[6]
• The Abel Prize (2024)