Pierre Lelong


Pierre Lelong was a French mathematician who introduced the Poincaré–Lelong equation, the Lelong number and the concept of plurisubharmonic functions.

Career

Lelong earned his doctorate in 1941 from the École Normale Supérieure, under the supervision of Paul Montel. On 5 June 1981 Lelong received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of
Mathematics and Science at Uppsala University, Sweden.
He became a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1985.

Personal life

He married another mathematician, Jacqueline Ferrand, in 1947; they separated in 1977.