Jean-Marie Souriau
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Jean-Marie Souriau is a mathematician, known for works in symplectic 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 and quantum mechanics. This works includes the first geometric interpretation of spin, and many important concepts, such as: the coadjoint action of a group on its moment space, the moment map, prequantization (geometric quantization), the classification of the homogeneous symplectic manifolds, diffeological spaces and many others.
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
- review by Mark Roberts of Sou97 (http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/Applied/news.dir/issue14.dir/art/review3.html)
- Jean Pierre Petit: Souriau (http://www.jp-petit.com/science/gal_port/souriau.htm)
- Jean Pierre Petit: English (Partial) (http://www.jp-petit.com/science/f400/f4100/a4101.htm)
- Ray F. Streater: Souriau (http://www.mth.kcl.ac.uk/~streater/souriau.html)
- Patrick Iglesias-Zemmour: Souriau (http://www.umpa.ens-lyon.fr/JME/Vol1Num3/SouriauJME3/SouriauJME3.html)
- Photo: photo (http://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/k2000/PHOTOS/jms.jpg)es:Jean-Marie Souriau
