Jean-Marie De Koninck, (born 1948) is a Canadian mathematician. He has served as a professor at Université Laval since 1972 and is the creator of the road safety program Opération Nez Rouge, or "Red Nose Operation", a system preventing people from drinking and driving.
Biography He is the son of the philosopher and theologian Charles De Koninck and the brother of the geographer Rodolphe De Koninck, the psychologist Joseph De Koninck, the philosopher Thomas De Koninck and the sociologist Maria De Koninck. Birthdate: April 29, 1948, Quebec City. Occupation: Professor of Mathematics at Université Laval University diplomas: 1970: Baccalauréat ès Sciences, Université Laval 1972" Master's degree in mathematics, Temple University 1973: Ph.D. in mathematics, Temple University Professional career at Université Laval: 1972-1977: assistant professor at the Mathematics Department 1976-1980: assistant director at the Mathematics Department and person responsible of graduated studies 1977-1982: associate professor at the Mathematics Department 1982–present: professor at the Mathematics and Statistics Department 1988-002: person responsible of the collaboration between Université Laval and colleges 1999-2003: assistant director at the Mathematics and Statistics Department and director of programs for the 2nd and 3rd cycles in mathematics and statistics 2005–present: director of SMAC (Science and Mathematics in Action) program
Scientific realizations Author of nine books:
Topics in Arithmetical Functions, North-Holland, 1980 Approche élémentaire de l'étude des fonctions arithmétiques, Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 1982 Introduction à la théorie des nombres, Modulo, Montréal, 1994 1001 problèmes en théorie classique des nombres (with Armel Mercier), Ellipses, Paris, 2004 Mathématiques de l'ingénieur, Éditions Loze, Montréal, 2004 1001 Problems in Classical Number Theory (with Armel Mercier), American Mathematical Society, 2007 (English edition of 1001 problèmes en théorie classique des nombres) Ces nombres qui nous fascinent, Ellipses, Paris, 2008 En chair et en maths, Septembre Éditeur, Québec, 2008 Those Fascinating Numbers, American Mathematical Society, 2009 (English edition of Ces nombres qui nous fascinent) Author of 83 publications in scientific papers with reviewing committees. Author of the SMAC chronicle in the Découvrir revue (five publications per year). Guest speaker in several Canadian and American universities, as well as in France, Germany, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Mexico. Co-president of the organizing committee of the International Conference on Number Theory held in Université Laval from July 5 to July 18, 1987. Co-president of the organizing committee of the 33rd Seminar of Mathematical Sciences of Quebec held in Université Laval on April 21, 1990. Member of the FQRNT's Board of Directors from 2001 to 2008. President of the 70th ACFAS Congress held in Université Laval from May 13 to May 17, 2002. Research Director of four PhD students and 12 Masters students. President of the Association mathématique du Québec from 2005 to 2007. Member of the ACFAS' Board of Directors from 2005 to 2007. De Koninck is an analytic number theorist. He has worked on the distribution of prime numbers, factorization methods, the asymptotic behavior of arithmetic functions, and the Riemann zeta function. He is the author of more than 50 peer-reviewed research papers.
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