Yves Cochet

Yves Cochet
Yves Cochet in 2007
Member of the European Parliament for France
In office 25 July 1989 – 31 December 1991
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 December 2011
Minister of Environment and Regional Planning
In office 10 July 2001 – 5 May 2002
Prime Minister	Lionel Jospin
Preceded by	Dominique Voynet
Succeeded by	Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin
Member of the French National Assembly for Val d'Oise
In office 1 June 1997 – 10 August 2001
Member of the French National Assembly for Paris (11th constituency)
In office 19 June 2002 – 6 December 2011
Preceded by	Nicole Catala
Personal details
Born	(1946-02-15) 15 February 1946 Rennes, France
Political party	Europe Écologie–The Greens
Profession	Computer scientist
Website	yvescochet.net

Yves Cochet is a French politician, member of Europe Écologie–The Greens. He was minister in the government of Lionel Jospin. On December 6, 2011, he was elected member of the European Parliament (MEP).

He studied Mathematics and became researcher-lecturer at Institut National des Sciences appliquées -Rennes in 1969. In June 1971, teaming with Maurice Nivat, he obtained a PhD for his research on « Sur l’algébricité des classes de certaines congruences définies sur le monoïde libre ».

Publications

• Yves Cochet et Maurice Nivat, « Une généralisation des ensembles de Dyck », Israel Journal of Mathematics, vol. 9, No. 3, septembre 1971, p. 389–395 ISSN 0021-2172.
• Sauver la Terre (avec Agnès Sinaï), éd. Fayard, Paris, 2003 ISBN 2-213-61701-5.
• Pétrole apocalypse, éd. Fayard, Paris, 2005 ISBN 2-213-62204-3.
• Antimanuel d'écologie, éd. Bréal, Rosny-sous-Bois, 2009 ISBN 978-2-7495-0845-0.

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