Michel Las Vergnas

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Michel Las Vergnas (January 11, 1941 – January 19, 2013) was a French mathematician associated with Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University in Paris, and a research director emeritus at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique.[1][2]

Las Vergnas earned his Ph.D. in 1972 from Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University, under the supervision of Claude Berge.[3] He was one of the founders of the European Journal of Combinatorics, which began publishing in 1980.[4]

His initial research was in graph theory, and particularly in the theories of matching and connectivity.[1] Beginning in 1975, he became one of the pioneers of the theory of oriented matroids,[1][5][6] and since that time he was interested in connections between combinatorics and geometry.[1]

A workshop on combinatorial geometry, held in Marseilles in April 2013, was dedicated to his memory.[7]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Michel Las Vergnas passed away, Equipe Combinatoire & Optimisation, Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University, retrieved 2013-11-03.
  2. Las Vergnas' home page at Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University, retrueved 2013-11-03.
  3. Michel Las Vergnas at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. List of founding editors of Eur J. Comb, Elsevier, retrieved 2013-11-03.
  5. http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-oriented1, AMS Feature Column, Joseph Malkevitch, retrieved 2013-11-03.
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  7. Workshop program, Combinatorial geometries: matroids, oriented matroids and applications, retrieved 2013-11-03.