Philippe Flajolet [SEP] place of death
Philippe Flajolet
Philippe Flajolet (; 1 December 1948 – 22 March 2011) was a French computer scientist.
Biography.
A former student of École Polytechnique, Philippe Flajolet received his Ph.D. in computer science from University Paris Diderot in 1973 and state doctorate from Paris-Sud 11 University in 1979. Most of Philippe Flajolet's research work was dedicated towards general methods for analyzing the computational complexity of algorithms, including the theory of average-case complexity. He introduced the theory of analytic combinatorics. With Robert Sedgewick of Princeton University
, he wrote the first book-length treatment of the
topic, the 2009 book entitled "Analytic Combinatorics".
A summary of his research up to 1998 can be found in the article "Philippe Flajolet's research in Combinatorics and Analysis of Algorithms" by H. Prodinger and W. Szpankowski, "Algorithmica" 22 (1998), 366-387.
At the time of his death from a serious illness, Philippe Flajolet was a research director (senior research scientist) at INRIA in Rocquencourt.
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