I whakawhiwhia ki a ia e nga matua o Jacques-Louis Lions, he kaikauwhau me te kaiwhakaako i te Whare Wananga o Nancy, i riro ia hei Perehitini o te International Mathematical Union, me Andrée Olivier, tana wahine. I puta ia i te École normale supérieure i te 1977 (i taua tau ano ko Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, tetahi atu Kaiwhiwhi Medal Fields). I te kore e whakaae ki te whakauru i roto i te Mathematics, i whiriwhiri ia ki te mahi rangahau i roto i te pāngarau tono, ka whiwhi i tana tohu taote mai i te Whare Wananga o Pierre me Marie Curie i te 1979. I whakawhiwhia a Lions ki te Tohu Fields, mo tana mahi i runga i te ariā o nga whārite wehewehe kore-raina, i te tau 1994 i a ia e mahi ana i te Whare Wananga o Paris-Dauphine. Ko ia te tuatahi ki te whakaoti i te whārite Boltzmann me nga tohu tohu. Ko etahi atu tohu i whakawhiwhia ki a ia ko te Tohu IBM i te 1987 me
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