Lê Dũng Tráng
Lê Dũng Tráng, (born 1947 in Saigon) is a Vietnamese-French mathematician.
Life and work
In the 1950s, Lê Dũng Tráng came to France, where he attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. He obtained a PhD in 1969 and 1971 under the supervision of Claude Chevalley and Pierre Deligne.[1] From 1975 to 1999, he was professor at the University of Paris VII and research director of the CNRS. From 1983 to 1995 he was also a professor at the Ecole Polytechnique. From 2002 to 2009 he headed the department of mathematics at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics(ICTP), in Trieste, Italy.
He was a frequent guest scientist at the Harvard University (with Phillip Griffiths) and Northeastern University (with Terence Gaffney, David B. Massey).
He is particularly concerned with singularity theory in the complex domain (Milnor fibrations, perverse sheaves).
In 2000 he was involved in promoting scientific exchange between the U.S. and Vietnam.[2] For this, he received an honorary doctorate from the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology in 2004.[3] He is a Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences.
His students include Hélène Esnault and Claude Sabbah.
Selected publications
- Introduction à la théorie des singularités, Paris, Hermann, 2 volumes, 1988
- Publisher: Algebraic approach to differential equations, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Nov. 2007, World Scientific 2010
- Editor with Kyoji Saito, Bernard Teissier : Singularity Theory, World Scientific 1995
- Topology of hypersurfaces complexes, in singularités à Cargese, astérisque 7/8, 1973, 171–182
- with CP Ramanujan The invariance of Milnor's number implies the invariance of the topological type, American Journal of Mathematics, Volume 98, 1976, pp 67–78
- Calcul du nombre de cycles évanouissants d'une hyper surface complexe, Annales de l'institut Fourier, 23, 1973, 261–270, NUMDAM
- Topological Use of Polar Curves, Proc. Symp Pure Math, Volume 29, 1975, pp 507–512
- with Francoise Michel, Claude Weber: Courbes polaires et topology of courbes plan. Annales scientifiques de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, Sér.4, band 24, 1991, pp. 141–169, NUMDAM
- The geometry of the monodromy theorem in C. P. Ramanujam – a tribute, Tata Institute, Springer Verlag 1978, 157–173
- with H. Hamm Un théoreme de Zariski du type de Lefschetz, Ann.Sci.ENS, 6, 1973, 317–366
Literature
- Jean-Paul Brasselet, José Luis Cisneros-Molina, David Massey, José Seade, Bernard Teissier (Editor) Singularities : international conference in honor of the 60th birthday of Lê Dũng Tráng, Cuernacava/Mexico 2007, 2 volumes, Contemporary Mathematics, American Mathematical Society 2008