Michel Enock-Levi (born June 1, 1947) is a French mathematician and a research director at CNRS [fr],[1] credited with the early development of Pontryagin-style dualities for non-commutative topological groups.
According to the French mathematician Alain Connes,[3] the book develops the general theory to characterize quantum groups among Hopf algebras, similar to the characterization of Lie groups among locally compact groups, "with emphasis on the analytical aspects of the subject instead of the purely algebraic ones".
Further, Connes writes: The theory of Kac algebras and their duality, [was] elaborated independently by M. Enock and J.
The subject has now reached a state of maturitySpecifically, Enock co-developed a general Pontryagin duality theory for all locally compact groups.
He received accreditation to direct research at Paris Diderot University in 1985.