Jeff Weeks
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Jeffrey Weeks
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Jeffrey Renwick Weeks est un mathématicien américain. Il a obtenu son doctorat à l'université de Princeton en 1985 sous la direction de William Thurston, lauréat en 1982 de la médaille Fields.
Il s'intéresse en particulier à la géométrie des variétés de dimension 3, ainsi qu'à leur applications possibles à la cosmologie (voir Topologie de l'univers). Il a notamment promu en 2003 l'hypothèse selon laquelle l'univers serait en réalité un espace dodécaédrique de Poincaré[1] en vue d'expliquer diverses anomalies présentes dans les anisotropies à grande échelle du fond diffus cosmologique observées par le satellite artificiel WMAP.
Il a créé un logiciel (SnapPea) pour l'étude des variétés hyperboliques de dimension 3.
Une variété hyperbolique compacte de dimension 3 de volume supposé minimal porte le nom de variété de Weeks ou espace de Weeks.
Bibliographie
- (en) Exploring the Shape of Space, livre et CD, Key Curriculum Press, 133 pages + CD (2000) ISBN 1559534672.
- (en) The Shape of Space, CRC, 328 pages (1985, réédition en 2001), ISBN 0824707095.
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Note
- ↑ (en) J.-P. Luminet, J. Weeks et al., Dodecahedral space topology as an explanation for weak wide - angle temperature correlations in the cosmic microwave background, Nature, 425, 593 (2003). astro-ph0310253 Voir en ligne.
Catégorie : Mathématicien américain
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