Gérald Tenenbaum

Gérald Tenenbaum, born in Nancy in 1952, is a mathematician and writer. He chaired the Jewish Cultural Association of Nancy for about twenty years. Former student of the Ecole Polytechnique, he is professor of mathematics at the Élie Cartan Institute of the University of Lorraine since 1981. Close collaborator of Paul Erdős and specialist in analytical and probabilistic number theory, he is the author of more than 170 research articles and half a dozen mathematical works. He received the A-X Gaston Julia Prize in 1976, the Albert Châtelet Medal in algebra and number theory in 1985 and, jointly with Michel Mendès France, the Paul Doistau-Émile Blutet Prize for scientific information from the Academy of Sciences in 1999. He also published poems, film reviews, a play, and fiction from the late 1990s. Gérald Tenenbaum is a member of the literary juries of the Prix Erckmann-Chatrian and the Prix de la Nouvelle littéraire for high school students from Lorraine.