Michèle Audin

Who is Michèle Audin?

Michèle Audin is a French mathematician, and a professor at l'Institut de recherche mathématique avancée in Strasbourg, where she does research notably in the area of symplectic geometry.

Born in 1954, she is a former student of l'École normale supérieure de jeunes filles within the École normale supérieure Sèvres. She became a member of l'Oulipo in 2009.

She is the daughter of mathematician Maurice Audin, who died under torture in 1957 in Algeria, after having been arrested by parachutists of General Jacques Massu. On January 1, 2009, she refused to receive the Legion of Honour, on the grounds that the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, had refused to respond to a letter written by her mother regarding the disappearance of her father.