Jean Céa

Jean Céa (born 1932, Aïn Témouchent) is a French mathematician.

Born from Spanish immigrants in Algeria (he learnt French in school), he studied at the Ecole normale d'instituteurs d'Oran and the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1964 with his dissertation Approximation variationnelle des problèmes aux limites.^[1][2] In his thesis he proved the Céa's lemma, an important result related to the error estimation in the Finite Element Method.

He is emeritus professor at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis and member of the Academia Europaea. In 1975 he was awarded with the Poncelet Prize.

Works

• Approximation variationnelle des problèmes aux limites, Annales de l'institut Fourier 14, vol 2, pp. 345–444, 1964, pdf
• Optimisation: théorie et algorithmes, Dunod 1971
• Lectures on optimization: theory and algorithms, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Springer 1978, pdf
• Approximation et méthodes itératives de résolution d'inéquations variationnelles et de problèmes non linéaires, Institut de recherche d'information et d'automatique (IRIA), Rocquencourt 1974
• Une vie de mathématicien. Mes émerveillements, Harmattan 2010
• Jeunes pousses en folie, Harmattan 2012 (Roman)

References

1. Jean Céa at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
2. Jean Céa, Approximation variationnelle des problèmes aux limites, Annales de l'institut Fourier, Band 14, Nr. 2, 1964, S. 345-444