Jean-Michel Bismut

Jean-Michel Bismut
Bismut in 2004 (photo from MFO)
Born	(1948-02-26) 26 February 1948 (age 76) Lisbon, Portugal
Nationality	French
Alma mater	Ecole Polytechnique
Known for	Backward stochastic differential equations, Probabilistic proof of Atiyah–Singer index theorem, Bismut connection, Bismut superconnection, Geometric hypoelliptic Laplacian, Explicit formulas for orbital integrals
Awards	Prix Ampère (French Academy of Sciences), 1990 Shaw Prize, 2021
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Université Paris-Sud
Doctoral advisor	Jacques-Louis Lions Jacques Neveu

Jean-Michel Bismut (born 26 February 1948) is a French mathematician who has been a professor at the Université Paris-Sud since 1981.^[1] His mathematical career covers two apparently different branches of mathematics: probability theory and differential geometry. Ideas from probability play an important role in his works on geometry.