Editorial to the special issue in honor of Bernard Cornet

摘要

Bernard Cornet was born in Algiers where he spent the first years of his childhood by the Mediterranean sea, forging the warm personality that is so characteristic of him. He received his high school education in Perpignan in the south of France close to the Spanish border, and in 1969, he joined the Ecole normale superieure in Paris. In 1972, he obtained the "agregation de mathematiques" and 1 year later his PhD in Mathematics from the Universite Paris-Dauphine. He then went to the University of California at Berkeley to study Economics with Gerard Debreu, under a Fulbright fellowship. The time spent at Berkeley, during the golden years of Mathematical Economics, has deeply influenced his lifetime research. Bernard is currently Professor of Mathematics at the Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, Chair Professor at the Paris School of Economics, and Oswald Distinguished Professor of Microeconomics at the University of Kansas. He has visited several universities throughout the world, with a lifelong relationship with CORE, Universite catholique de Louvain, where he spent four years, first as a Research Fellow, later as the Research Director, and more recently as a CORE Distinguished Lecture Series recipient.