Jean-Marie Souriau

Jean-Marie Souriau (born in 1922) is a French mathematician, known for works in symplectic geometry, in which he is one of the pioneers. He has published several works, a treatise on relativity [Sou64b] and a treatise on mechanics: [Sou70] . He has developed the symplectic aspects of classical and quantum mechanics. His work includes the first geometric interpretation of spin, and many important concepts, such as: the coadjoint action of a group on its moment space, the moment map, prequantization (geometric quantization), the classification of the homogeneous symplectic manifolds, diffeological spaces and many others.

He was educated at the Ecole Normale Superieure and spent most of his career as a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Provence in Marseille.

Bibliography

* [Sou64a] J.-M. Souriau, Calcul linéaire, P.U.F., Paris, 1964.
* [Sou64b] J.-M. Souriau, Géométrie et relativité, Hermann, 1964.
* [Sou70] J.-M. Souriau, Structure des systèmes dynamiques, Dunod, Paris, 1970.
* [Sou97] J.-M. Souriau, Structure of Dynamical Systems, Birkhäuser, Boston, 1997.

External links

* [http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/Applied/news.dir/issue14.dir/art/review3.html Review by Mark Roberts of Sou97]
* Jean Pierre Petit: [http://www.jp-petit.com/science/gal_port/souriau.htm Souriau]
* Jean Pierre Petit: [http://www.jp-petit.com/science/f400/f4100/a4101.htm English (Partial)]
* Ray F. Streater: [http://www.mth.kcl.ac.uk/~streater/souriau.html Souriau]
* Patrick Iglesias-Zemmour: [http://www.umpa.ens-lyon.fr/JME/Vol1Num3/SouriauJME3/SouriauJME3.html Souriau]
* Photo: [http://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/k2000/PHOTOS/jms.jpgphoto]