Bernard Teissier

Bernard Teissier (French pronunciation: [tɛsje]; born 1945)^[1] is a French mathematician and a member of the Nicolas Bourbaki group. He has made major contributions to algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, specifically to singularity theory, multiplicity theory^[2][3] and valuation theory.

Bernard Teissier
Born	1945 (age 79–80)
Nationality	French
Alma mater	Paris Diderot University
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Paris Diderot University Paris-Sud 11 University University of Tehran
Doctoral advisor	Heisuke Hironaka
Doctoral students	François Loeser David Trotman

Teissier attained his doctorate from Paris Diderot University in 1973, under supervision of Heisuke Hironaka.^[4] He was a member and a leading figure of Nicolas Bourbaki.^[5] Along with Alain Connes, he gave the 1975/1976 Peccot Lectures. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematics at Warsaw in 1983.^[6]

In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[7]