Gérard Debreu
French economist and mathematician
Gérard Debreu was a French-born economist and mathematician. Best known as a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he began work in 1962, he won the 1983 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Wikipedia
Born: July 4, 1921, Calais, France
Died: December 31, 2004 (age 83 years), Paris, France
Education: University of Paris (1956), University of California, Berkeley, and École normale supérieure
Influenced by: Léon Walras, Maurice Allais, and Henri Cartan
Award: Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1983)
Contributions: General equilibrium; utility theory; topological methods; integration of set-valued correspondences