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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Choquet-Bruhat
(photo from 1974)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01763-z
https://www.ihes.fr/en/yvonne-choquet-bruhat-eng/
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Choquet-Bruhat/
https://scientificwomen.net/women/choquet_bruhat-yvonne-139
La physicienne Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, première femme élue à l'Académie des sciences (reload, if needed)
(2002) from Cargèse Summer School: 50 years of the Cauchy problem in General Relativity
http://fanfreluche.math.univ-tours.fr/Cauchy2.html
(2006) Mathematical Problems in General Relativity
Emmy Noether Lecture - International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid 2006
VIDEO: https://av.tib.eu/media/15944
SLIDES: https://www.mathunion.org/fileadmin/IMU/Videos/ICM2006/tars/choquet2006.pdf
from https://www.mathunion.org/icm/icm-videos/icm-2006-videos-madrid-spain/icm-madrid-videos-25082006 )
(2015) Inaugural Session of MG14 - Rome, July 2015 &t=17m25s
(2016) Conférence - Y CHOQUET BRUHAT - Rencontres avec Einstein - Académie des sciences
(translated text: https://cqgplus.wordpress.com/2015/12/14/some-memories-from-meeting-einstein-in-1951-1952/ )
VIDEO: (2023) Thibault Damour - Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat: a Mathematician in Einstein’s Universe
SLIDES: http://www.isgrg.org/GRGYCB100Damourv2.pdf
dissertation:
Théorème d'existence pour certains systèmes d'équations aux dérivées partielles non linéaires
Y. Fourès-Bruhat
Acta Math. 88: 141-225 (1952). DOI: 10.1007/BF02392131
Global aspects of the Cauchy problem in general relativity
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Robert Geroch
Comm. Math. Phys. 14(4): 329-335 (1969).
Beginnings of the Cauchy problem
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.3490v1
bibliography:
https://celebratio.org/ChoquetBruhat_Y/article/1071/
https://www.amazon.com/Books-Y-Choquet-Bruhat/s?tag=pfamazon01-20
https://academictree.org/physics/tree.php?pid=733743
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01763-z
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat obituary: mathematician who established that Einstein’s equations mirror the real world.
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat was a giant of the mathematical study of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Her theorem establishing the existence of solutions to Einstein’s equations is central to how mathematicians and physicists think about general relativity today, from simulating black holes to interpreting observations of gravitational waves.
https://www.ihes.fr/en/yvonne-choquet-bruhat-eng/
VIDEO Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES): Hommage à Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat et Cécile DeWitt [earlier PF post about Cecile DeWitt]It is with deep sadness that IHES has learned of the passing of Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat on Tuesday, February 11, 2025, at the age of 101.
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Choquet-Bruhat/
https://scientificwomen.net/women/choquet_bruhat-yvonne-139
La physicienne Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, première femme élue à l'Académie des sciences (reload, if needed)
(2002) from Cargèse Summer School: 50 years of the Cauchy problem in General Relativity
http://fanfreluche.math.univ-tours.fr/Cauchy2.html
- On parameterizing the space of solutions
http://fanfreluche.math.univ-tours.fr/organiser/Choquet-Bruhat.htm - Non linear stability of Einsteinian space times with U(1) isometry group, the general case
http://fanfreluche.math.univ-tours.fr/lecturer/Choquet-Bruhat.htm
(2006) Mathematical Problems in General Relativity
Emmy Noether Lecture - International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid 2006
VIDEO: https://av.tib.eu/media/15944
SLIDES: https://www.mathunion.org/fileadmin/IMU/Videos/ICM2006/tars/choquet2006.pdf
from https://www.mathunion.org/icm/icm-videos/icm-2006-videos-madrid-spain/icm-madrid-videos-25082006 )
(2015) Inaugural Session of MG14 - Rome, July 2015 &t=17m25s
(2016) Conférence - Y CHOQUET BRUHAT - Rencontres avec Einstein - Académie des sciences
(translated text: https://cqgplus.wordpress.com/2015/12/14/some-memories-from-meeting-einstein-in-1951-1952/ )
VIDEO: (2023) Thibault Damour - Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat: a Mathematician in Einstein’s Universe
SLIDES: http://www.isgrg.org/GRGYCB100Damourv2.pdf
part of IHES's Day in Honor of Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat’s 100th BirthdayYvonne Choquet-Bruhat has made fundamental contributions to both the mathematical and the physical understanding of Einstein's theory of gravitation. I will briefly summarize some of her achievements including:
1. The first proof of the existence of general (non analytic) solutions of Einstein's theory, including the first rigorous proof that they involve propagation phenomena at the velocity of light, i.e. gravitational waves;
2. Studies of relativistic fluids and of relativistic magneto-hydrodynamics;
3. A study of the exceptional properties of strong high-frequency gravitational waves;
4. Positivity of mass in a neighborhood of Minkowski space;
5. Causality of supergravity and study of Gauss-Bonnet gravity;
6. Existence proofs for classes of cosmological spacetimes; and
7. New formulations of Einstein's equations that proved crucial to the possibility ofnumerically simulating the motion and gravitational radiation of coalescing binary black holes.
- Thibault Damour (IHES)
dissertation:
Théorème d'existence pour certains systèmes d'équations aux dérivées partielles non linéaires
Y. Fourès-Bruhat
Acta Math. 88: 141-225 (1952). DOI: 10.1007/BF02392131
Global aspects of the Cauchy problem in general relativity
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Robert Geroch
Comm. Math. Phys. 14(4): 329-335 (1969).
Beginnings of the Cauchy problem
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.3490v1
bibliography:
https://celebratio.org/ChoquetBruhat_Y/article/1071/
https://www.amazon.com/Books-Y-Choquet-Bruhat/s?tag=pfamazon01-20
- (1982 vol 1,1989 vol 2) Analysis, Manifolds and Physics
- (2015) Introduction to General Relativity, Black Holes and Cosmology
- (2016) Une mathematicienne dans cet etrange univers: Memoires
(translated version: (2018) A Lady Mathematician in this Strange Universe: Memoirs) - (2009) General Relativity and the Einstein Equations (Oxford Mathematical Monographs)
https://academictree.org/physics/tree.php?pid=733743
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