Martine Queffélec
Martine Queffélec (née Joublin, born 1949) is a French mathematician associated with the University of Lille 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 Systems – Spectral Analysis" (Springer, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1294, 1987; 2nd ed., 2010). She is the co-author , with Hervé Queffélec, of "Diophantine Approximation and Dirichlet Series" (Harish-Chandra Research Institute Lecture Notes 2, 2013). 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 (1910–1992), and the brother of pianist Anne Queffélec and novelist Yann Queffélec.