Frédéric Hélein

Frédéric Hélein
Born 22 April 1963 (1963-04-22) (age 55)
Nationality French
Awards Fermat Prize (1999)
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Paris Diderot University
Doctoral advisor Jean-Michel Coron

Frédéric Hélein (born 22 April 1963) is a French mathematician. He is university professor at Paris Diderot University.

Hélein earned his doctorate at École Polytechnique under supervision of Jean-Michel Coron. He won the 1999 Fermat Prize, jointly with Fabrice Bethuel, for several important contributions to the theory of variational calculus.


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