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• Pascal Auscher
• Aline Bonami
• Albert Cohen

{edih}| notable_students =| known_for = Wavelet theory| influences =| influenced =Salem PrizeCarl Friedrich Gauss PrizeAbel PrizePrincess of Asturias Awards>Princess of Asturias Award| author_abbrev_bot =| author_abbrev_zoo =| spouse = | partner = | children =| signature = | signature_alt =| website = | footnotes =}}Yves F. Meyer ({{IPA-fr|mɛjɛʁ|lang}}; born 19 July 1939) is a French mathematician. He is among the progenitors of wavelet theory, having proposed the Meyer wavelet. Meyer was awarded the Abel Prize in 2017.

Biography

Born in Paris, Yves Meyer studied at the Lycée Carnot in Tunis;WEB,www.lyceecarnotdetunis.com/, Home, lyceecarnotdetunis.com, he won the French General Student Competition (Concours Général) in Mathematics, and was placed first in the entrance examination for the École Normale Supérieure in 1957.Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles : Yves Meyer. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1966, under the supervision of Jean-Pierre Kahane.{{MathGenealogy|id=34970|title=Yves F. Meyer}} The Mexican historian Jean Meyer is his cousin.Yves Meyer taught at the Prytanée national militaire during his military service (1960–1963), then was a teaching assistant at the Université de Strasbourg (1963–1966), a professor at Université Paris-Sud (1966–1980), a professor at École Polytechnique (1980–1986), a professor at Université Paris-Dauphine (1985–1995), a senior researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) (1995–1999), an invited professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (2000), a professor at École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (1999–2003), and has been a professor emeritus at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan since 2004.He was awarded the 2010 Gauss Prize for fundamental contributions to number theory, operator theory and harmonic analysis, and his pivotal role in the development of wavelets and multiresolution analysis.WEB,www.icm2010.org.in/prize-winners-2010/carl-friedrich-gauss-prize-yves-meyer, Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize – Yves Meyer, International Congress of Mathematicians 2010, Hyderabad, India, dead,www.icm2010.org.in/prize-winners-2010/carl-friedrich-gauss-prize-yves-meyer," title="web.archive.org/web/20100923083720www.icm2010.org.in/prize-winners-2010/carl-friedrich-gauss-prize-yves-meyer,">web.archive.org/web/20100923083720www.icm2010.org.in/prize-winners-2010/carl-friedrich-gauss-prize-yves-meyer, 23 September 2010, dmy-all, He also received the 2017 Abel Prize “for his pivotal role in the development of the mathematical theory of wavelets.“WEB, 2017: Yves Meyer,abelprize.no/abel-prize-laureates/2017, 22 July 2022, www.abelprize.no, en, JOURNAL, Dundas, Bjørn, Skau, Christian, Interview with Abel Laureate Yves Meyer, EMS Newsletter, 2017-9, 105, 2017, 1027-488X, 10.4171/NEWS/105/5, 14–22, free,

Publications

• BOOK, Meyer, Yves, Nombres de Pisot, nombres de Salem, et analyse harmonique, Springer-Verlag, Berlin New York, 1970, 978-3-540-36243-2, 295014081, fr,
• BOOK, Algebraic numbers and harmonic analysis, Elsevier Science, Burlington, 1972, 978-0-08-095412-7, 761646828,
• BOOK, Meyer, Yves, Ondelettes et opérateurs, Hermann, Paris, 1990, 978-2-7056-6125-0, 945745937, fr,
• BOOK, Meyer, Yves, D. H. Salinger, Wavelets and Operators, Cambridge University Press, 22 April 1993, 978-0-521-42000-6, 10.1017/cbo9780511623820, JOURNAL, Chui, Charles K., Review: Wavelets and operators, by Yves Meyer; A friendly guide to wavelets, by Gerald Kaiser, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.), 1996, 33, 1, 131–134,www.ams.org/journals/bull/1996-33-01/S0273-0979-96-00635-0/, 10.1090/s0273-0979-96-00635-0, free,

Awards and recognitions

• He is a member of the Académie des Sciences since 1993.Académie des Sciences : Yves Meyer. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809210426www.academie-sciences.fr/academie/membre/Meyer_Yves.htm |date=9 August 2011 }}
• Meyer was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in 1970 in Nice, in 1983 in Warsaw,Meyer, Yves. “Intégrales singulières, opérateurs multilinéaires, analyse complexe et équations aux dérivées partielles.” Proc. Intern. Cong. Math (1983): 1001–1010. and in 1990 in Kyoto.Meyer, Yves F. “Wavelets and applications.” Proc. Intern. Cong. Math (1990): 1619–1626.
• In 2010, Yves Meyer was awarded the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize.
• In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 4 February 2013.
• In 2017 he was awarded the Abel Prize for his pivotal role in developing the mathematical theory of wavelets.WEB,www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2017/mar/21/abel-prize-2017-yves-meyer-wins-maths-nobel-for-work-on-wavelets, Abel Prize 2017: Yves Meyer wins ‘maths Nobel’ for work on wavelets, 21 March 2017, The Guardian,
• In 2020 he received the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research.WEB, Yves Meyer, Ingrid Daubechies, Terence Tao and Emmanuel Candès, Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research 2020, Princess of Asturias Foundation,www.fpa.es/en/princess-of-asturias-awards/laureates/2020-yves-meyer-ingrid-daubechies-terence-tao-and-emmanuel-candes.html, 23 June 2020,

See also

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• Wavelet
• Alex Grossmann
• Meyer wavelet
• Compressed sensing
• Harmonious set
• JPEG 2000
• Meyer set
• Ingrid Daubechies
• Jean Morlet

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References

External links

• Société Mathématiques de France : Lecture by Yves Meyer (2009)
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• Gauss prize 2010

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