Andrée Ehresmann
Andrée Ehresmann in December 2010
Born
Andrée Bastiani

(1935-09-07) September 7, 1935
NationalityFrench
Alma materUniversity of Paris
SpouseCharles Ehresmann
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Picardy Jules Verne
ThesisDifférentiabilité dans les espaces localement convexes. Distructures (1962)
Doctoral advisorGustave Choquet
Websitehttps://mes-ehres.fr/indexAE.htm

Andrée Ehresmann (born Andrée Bastiani; 1935)[1] is a French mathematician specialising in category theory.[2]

Education and career

Ehresmann was a researcher at CNRS from 1957 to 1963. She was awarded a Ph.D. in 1962 at University of Paris under the supervision of Gustave Choquet. Her thesis was entitled Différentiabilité dans les espaces localement convexes. Distructures [Differentiability in locally convex spaces. Distructures].[3]

In 1967 she became a professor at IRCAM, at the University of Picardie Jules Verne, where she is currently emeritus professor.[4]

Research

Ehresmann has published over a hundred works on Analysis (Differential Calculus and Infinite-dimensional Distributions, Guiding Systems and Optimization Problems), Category Theory (with her husband, Charles Ehresmann: sketches and internal categories, multiple categories, closed monoidal structures) and the modeling of complex autonomous systems (Memory Scalable Systems, including the MENS model for neuro-cognitive systems).

She developed, with J.-P. Vanbremeersch a model of Memory Evolutive Systems, which proposes a mathematical model for 'living' systems with a hierarchy of complex components with multiple temporalities, such as biological, neuro-cognitive, or social systems. Based on a theory of 'dynamic' categories, evolving memory systems can analyze complexity, emergence and self-organization.

She is the director of the mathematical journal Cahiers de Topologie et Géométrie Différentielle Catégoriques.[5]

Notes and references

  1. Birth year from French national library catalogue listing, retrieved 2018-11-27.
  2. "Ehresmann, Andrée (1935...)". catalogue.bnf.fr (in French). Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  3. "sous". www-ext.impmc.upmc.fr. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  4. Ferri, Massimo (6 May 2015). "Ircam, Parigi: un tuffo nella matemusica" [IRCAM, Paris: a dive into mathematics]. Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2015-05-09. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  5. "cahiers de topologie et géométrie différentielle catégoriques". Retrieved 2019-07-28.


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