Emmanuel Breuillard is a mathematician who works at the interface between algebra and analysis. He studied in Paris and Yale, worked in Lille, Paris, Muenster and Cambridge before joining the University of Oxford, where he now holds the chair of Pure Mathematics. He is also fellow of Worcester College.
He has made valuable contributions to the study of finite and infinite groups, using a wealth of methods from very different areas of mathematics, including combinatorics, mathematical logic, probability theory, dynamics, or diophantine analysis. Among them are his work on free subgroups of Lie groups, the development (with Green and Tao) of a structure theory for approximate groups, or his study (with Varju) of mixing and equidistribution phenomena for random walks on groups with applications to self-similarity and random polynomials.
In 2012 he was awarded a European Mathematical Society Prize for his work in asymptotic group theory, and in 2013 he received the De Freycinet Prize from the French Academy of Science.
Professional position
- Professor of Pure Mathematics, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
Subject groups
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Mathematics
Pure mathematics
