Paul Malliavin

Paul Malliavin
Paul Malliavin at the ICM 2006 in Madrid, with his wife Marie-Paule Malliavin
Born	(1925-09-10)September 10, 1925 Neuilly-sur-Seine
Died	June 3, 2010(2010-06-03) (aged 84) Paris
Nationality	French
Alma mater	University of Paris
Known for	Malliavin derivative Malliavin's absolute continuity lemma Malliavin calculus Probabilistic proof of Hörmander's theorem
Awards	Servant Prize (1972) Prix Gaston Julia Prize (1974)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Pierre and Marie Curie University
Doctoral advisor	Szolem Mandelbrojt
Doctoral students	María Emilia Caballero Ana Bela Cruzeiro

Paul Malliavin (French: [maljavɛ̃]; September 10, 1925 – June 3, 2010) was a French mathematician who made important contributions to harmonic analysis and stochastic analysis. He is known for the Malliavin calculus, an infinite dimensional calculus for functionals on the Wiener space and his probabilistic proof of Hörmander's theorem. He was Professor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University and a member of the French Academy of Sciences from 1979 to 2010.^[1]