Alain Lascoux

Who was Alain Lascoux?

Alain Lascoux was a French mathematician at the University of Marne la Vallée and Nankai University. His research fields include algebraic combinatorics, particularly Hecke algebras and Young tableaux.

Lascoux earned his doctorate in 1967 from the University of Paris. He worked for twenty years with Marcel-Paul Schützenberger on properties of the symmetric group. They wrote many articles together and had a big impact in algebraic combinatorics. One of their goal was to give a combinatorial understanding of some algebraic and geometric questions. Thus they introduced many new objects related to both fields like Schubert polynomials and Grothendieck polynomials.

Lascoux was an invited speaker at the 1998 International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin, Germany.