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Martine Queffélec

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Martine Queffélec (née Joublin, born 1949) is a French mathematician associated with the University of Lille[1] and known for her research on continued fractions, Diophantine approximation, combinatorics on words, L-systems, and related topics in dynamical systems.

Education and career

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Queffélec defended her doctoral dissertation in 1984.[1] By 1987, she was working at the Université Sorbonne Paris Nord;[2] she moved to the Lille University of Science and Technology in 1993.[1]

Books

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Queffélec is the author of the book Substitution Dynamical Systems – Spectral Analysis (Springer, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1294, 1987; 2nd ed., 2010).[3] She is the co-author, with Hervé Queffélec, of Diophantine Approximation and Dirichlet Series (Harish-Chandra Research Institute Lecture Notes 2, 2013).[4]

Recognition

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In 2011, the Lille University of Science and Technology hosted a conference "Analyse 2011" in honor of both Martine and Hervé Queffélec.[5]

Personal life and family

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Queffélec's husband, mathematician Hervé Queffélec, is a son of French writer Henri Queffélec (1910–1992), and the brother of pianist Anne Queffélec and novelist Yann Queffélec.

References

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  1. ^ a b c Pourprix, Marie Thérèse, Mathématiciens et personnels attachés au service des mathématiques de Lille, Association of Solidarity of Alumni of the University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, retrieved 2020-06-23 – via Queffelec-a-drak: L'encyclopédie des Queffelec
  2. ^ "Queffélec, Martine", idRef, retrieved 2020-06-23
  3. ^ Reviews of Substitution Dynamical Systems:
  4. ^ Reviews of Diophantine Approximation and Dirichlet Series:
  5. ^ Analyse 2011, en l'honneur de Martine & Hervé Queffélec, University of Lille, archived from the original on 2017-08-29