Max Karoubi

Max Karoubi (French: [kaʁubi]) is a French mathematician, topologist, who works on K-theory, cyclic homology and noncommutative geometry and who founded the first European Congress of Mathematics.

Max Karoubi
Born	(1938-11-10) 10 November 1938 (age 86) Tunis, Tunisia
Nationality	French
Alma mater	École normale supérieure University of Paris
Known for	K-theory
Awards	Prix de l'Académie des Sciences Paris Médaille d'argent du CNRS Prix Leloir du gouvernement argentin
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Paris Diderot University
Doctoral advisor	Henri Cartan Alexander Grothendieck

Max Karoubi (right) with Wendelin Werner (left) at ICM 2006 in Madrid

In 1967, he received his Ph.D. in mathematics (Doctorat d'État) from the University of Paris, under the supervision of Henri Cartan and Alexander Grothendieck.

In 1973, he was nominated full professor at the University of Paris 7-Denis Diderot until 2007. He is now an emeritus professor there. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[1]

Karoubi has supervised 12 Ph.D. students, including Jean-Louis Loday and Christophe Soulé.^[2]

See also

• Karoubi conjecture
• Karoubi envelope

Publications

• M. Karoubi (1968). "Algèbres de Clifford et K-théorie". Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Supér. 1 (2): 161–270. doi:10.24033/asens.1163.
• Karoubi, Max (1978), K-theory, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-540-08090-9, MR 0488029^[3]
• Karoubi, Max (1979), "K-théorie algébrique de certaines algèbres d'opérateurs", in Harpe, Pierre de la (ed.), Algèbres d'opérateurs (Sém., Les Plans-sur-Bex, 1978), Lecture Notes in Math., vol. 725, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 254–290, doi:10.1007/BFb0062621, ISBN 978-3-540-09512-5, MR 0548119