Education
A former student of École Polytechnique, Philippe Flajolet received his Doctor of Philosophy in computer science from University Paris Diderot in 1973 and state doctorate from Paris-Sud 11 University in 1979.
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A former student of École Polytechnique, Philippe Flajolet received his Doctor of Philosophy 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 West. 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 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique in Rocquencourt. The HyperLogLog commands of Redis, released in April 2014, are prefixed with "Public Finance" in honor of Philippe Flajolet.
French Academy of Sciences. Academia Europaea]
From 1994 to 2003 he was a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences, and was a full member from 2003 on. He was also a member of the Academia Europaea.