Yves F. Meyer is a French mathematician, born in Paris in 1939, who is among the progenitors of wavelet theory, having proposed the Meyer wavelet, and who was awarded the Abel Prize in 2017. He studied at the Lycée Carnot in Tunis, won the French Concours Général in mathematics and was placed first in the entrance examination for the École Normale Supérieure in 1957, obtaining his PhD in 1966 under Jean-Pierre Kahane. He taught at the Université de Strasbourg, was a professor at Université Paris-Sud and at the École Polytechnique, and became a senior researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique.
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