- Jean-Marie Souriau
Jean-Marie Souriau (born in 1922) is a French
mathematician , known for works insymplectic 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 andquantum mechanics . His work includes the first geometric interpretation of spin, and many important concepts, such as: thecoadjoint action of a group on itsmoment space , themoment map ,prequantization (geometric quantization ), the classification of the homogeneoussymplectic manifold s,diffeological space s and many others.He was educated at the
Ecole Normale Superieure and spent most of his career as a Professor of Mathematics at theUniversity 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]
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