Mohammed Salah Baouendi (Arabic: محمد صالح باوندي; October 12, 1937 in Tunis – December 24, 2011 in La Jolla, California) was a Tunisian-American mathematician who worked as a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, San Diego.
[1][2] Baouendi moved from Tunis to France after finishing his Baccalauréat in the high school Sadiki College, and earned a licence (a French undergraduate degree) in 1961 from the Sorbonne.
After the intervention of Laurent Schwartz, Baouendi was allowed to return to France for his graduate studies.
[5] He was a co-founder of two journals, Communications in Partial Differential Equations and Mathematical Research Letters.
He and his wife, mathematician Linda Preiss Rothschild, were jointly awarded the Stefan Bergman Prize of the American Mathematical Society in 2003.