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Philippe Flajolet's Home Page

Philippe Flajolet died suddenly on March 22, 2011. This page will be left untouched.

``Does research. Smokes. Battles administration. Smokes. Wishes he could stop battling administration so that he could have more time to do research. Smokes some more. Gives jobs to starving foreigners. Eats occassionally.'' --- Eithne Murray

Interests: Analysis of algorithms, analytic combinatorics (and vice versa),
computer algebra, asymptotic analysis, special functions, random structures, natural languages.
= (A proof I' m knowledgeable about mechanics?) (A proof some guy(s) in Europe know me?)

Research Papers, Notes, and Slides

This section is mostly a repository of my research activities. There, you'll find quite a few papers in various electronic formats.

A collection of more than 80 articles that are available here.
My publication list, also in PDF format. It includes 196 papers (complete as of May 2007).
Discover here why my Flajolet number is 0, my Knuth number is 1, my Erdös number is 2, my Wiles number is 4, and my Einstein number is 6 (!).
My 70 coauthors are from 21 different countries.
Math Reviews of papers (requires MathSciNet license)

Friendly pages

Algorithms Project at INRIA.
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics
Experimental and Constructive Mathematics in British Columbia
Favorite Mathematical Constants by Steven Finch
Symbolic Computation Group at the University of Waterloo, where Maple started.
Waterloo Maple Inc., the company which sells Maple.

Teaching/Enseignement

Science & Politics / Science et politique

Humours / Humeurs (probably mostly in French).

Contact Information

Philippe Flajolet
INRIA Rocquencourt
F-78153 Le Chesnay (France)
http://www-rocq.inria.fr/algo/flajolet/
Tel: +33-1-39.63.56.26
Fax: +33-1-39.63.55.96
Secr: +33-1-39.63.54.43 (Virginie Collette).

Email: Philippe.Flajolet@inria.fr