Maurice Audin

Maurice Audin, born on February 14, 1932, in Béja (Tunisia) and officially declared dead on June 21, 1957, in Algiers, was a French mathematician. An assistant at the University of Algiers, he was a member of the Algerian Communist Party and an activist for Algerian independence. Born in 1932 in Béja, Tunisia—where his father served as a gendarme in the French administration—Audin moved with his family as his father was reassigned to different posts, growing up notably in Aïn Draham and later in Bayonne. He pursue...