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Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat ( French: [ivɔn ʃɔkɛ bʁy.a] ⓘ; born 29 December 1923) is a French mathematician and physicist. She has made seminal contributions to the study of Einstein's general theory of relativity, by showing that the Einstein equations can be put into the form of an initial value problem which is well-posed.
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat is a French mathematician and physicist who made important contributions to the general theory of relativity. She was the first woman to be elected to the French Academy of Sciences. View four larger pictures. Biography.
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat is a pioneer of general relativity and the first woman elected to the Académie des Sciences Française. She proved the well-posedness of the Einstein equations and applied her results to gravitational waves and supergravity.
In 2006 Choquet-Bruhat delivered the Emmy Noether Lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid on the topic of "Mathematical problems in General Relativity" . In 2018 she published an autobiographical memoir at the request of her children: A Lady Mathematician in This Strange Universe: Memoirs , World Scientific, 2018 ( MAA ...
The Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat Local Existence and Uniqueness Theorem of 1952 was a breakthrough in mathematics and in physics. Write the Einstein equations as quasilinear wave equations for the
Nov 1, 2015 · Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat is a giant of mathematical general relativity. In 1952 she proved a groundbreaking theorem on the existence of solutions to the Einstein field equations. Since then she has obtained many results in general relativity, partial differential equations, classical field theory, and fluid dynamics.
Dec 29, 2017 · Born on 29 December 1923 in Lille, France, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat is a mathematical physicist who in 1979 became the first woman elected to the French Academy of Sciences.
