Jean-François

Jean-François is a French given name.

Notable people bearing the given name include:

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François Trèves

J. (Jean) François Trèves (born April 23, 1930 in Brussels) is a French mathematician, specializing in partial differential equations.

Trèves earned his Ph.D. in 1958 from Sorbonne under the supervision of Laurent Schwartz. He then went to the USA where from 1958 to 1960 he was assistant professor at Berkeley. From 1961 to 1964 he was an associate professor at Yeshiva University, and from 1964 to 1970 professor at Purdue University. In 1970 he became a professor at Rutgers University, where he was in 1984 Robert-Adrian professor emeritus and 2005.

In 1972 he received the Chauvenet Prize for "On local solvability of linear partial differential equations" in the Bulletin of the AMS (Volume 76, 1970, pp. 552–571). It was about the problem he worked in 1962 with Louis Nirenberg with whom he found necessary and sufficient conditions for the solvability of equations with analytic coefficients, 1969 (Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences Paris Bd.269). The question was first presented to him in 1955 by Schwartz as a thesis problem.