Alain Connes Alain Connes Alain Connes born April is a French mathematician currently Professor at the College de France Paris France IHES Bures sur Yvette France and Vanderbilt University Nashville Tennessee He is a specialist of Von Neumann algebras and succeeded in completing the classification of factors of these objects.
The remarkable links between this subject the tools he and others devised to tackle the problem and other subjects in theoretical physics particle physics and differential geometry made him emphasize Noncommutative geometry which is also the title of his major book to date.
He was awarded the Fields Medal in the Crafoord Prize in and the gold medal of the CNRS in.
See cyclic homology factor functional analysis Higgs boson C algebra M Theory Groupoid Jean Louis Loday.
External links
 Alain Connes Official Web Site
 Alain Connes Biography