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 pursued mathematics studies at the University of Algiers, earning a bachelor's degree and a postgraduate diploma; following academic work focused on linear equations in vector spaces, he quickly became an assistant to René de Possel.