Martine Queffélec


Martine Queffélec is a French mathematician associated with the Lille University of Science and Technology and known for her research on continued fractions, Diophantine approximation, combinatorics on words, L-systems, and related topics in dynamical systems.

Education and career

Queffélec defended her doctoral dissertation in 1984.
By 1987, she was working at the Université Sorbonne Paris Nord;
she moved to the Lille University of Science and Technology in 1993.

Books

Queffélec is the author of the book Substitution Dynamical SystemsSpectral Analysis. She is the co-author, with Hervé Queffélec, of Diophantine Approximation and Dirichlet Series.

Recognition

In 2011, the Lille University of Science and Technology hosted a conference "Analyse 2011" in honor of both Martine and Hervé Queffélec.

Personal life and family

Queffélec's husband, mathematician Hervé Queffélec, is a son of French writer Henri Queffélec, and the brother of pianist Anne Queffélec and novelist Yann Queffélec.