1. Maurice Audin was a renowned French mathematics assistant at the University of Algiers, a member of the Algerian Communist Party and an activist in the anticolonialist cause, who died under torture by the French state during the Battle of Algiers.
Maurice Audin is memorialized by the Maurice Audin Prize, sponsored by the Societe de Mathematiques Appliquees et Industrielles, the Societe Mathematique de France, and others, and granted biennially to an Algerian mathematician working in Algeria and a French mathematician working in France.
Maurice Audin is the son of Louis Audin and Alphonsine Fort, who married in 1923 in Kolea ; they both came from modest families, he from Lyon workers, she from peasants from the Mitidja.
When Maurice was born, his father was commander of the gendarmerie brigade in Beja, in the French protectorate of Tunisia.
Later, Louis Maurice Audin was assigned to metropolitan France, then he passed a competitive examination and became a postman in Algiers.
Son of a soldier, Maurice Audin became an Enfant de troupe and, in 1942, entered the sixth grade at the preparatory military school of Hammam Righa.
Maurice Audin studied mathematics at the University of Algiers, obtaining his degree in June 1953, then a diploma of higher education in July.
Maurice and Josette Audin were part of the anti-colonialist minority of the French in Algeria, whose desire is the independence of Algeria, which is the position of the Algerian Communist Party.
Maurice Audin was taken to the Villa Susini in the fashionable neighborhood of El Biar for interrogation.
Maurice Audin was last seen alive by Henri Alleg, one day after his arrest.
Alleg had just been arrested, and the paratroopers attempted to intimidate him by showing Maurice Audin, who had been tortured and was confused.
However, in November 1960, Charbonnier told Vidal-Naquet that he had strangled Maurice Audin and buried the body in Fort l'Empereur in El Biar.
The body of Maurice Audin not having been found, a death certificate was issued by a court in Algiers on 1 June 1963, a judgment which was recognized in France on 27 May 1966.
In 2001, Madame Maurice Audin issued a new complaint, calling her husband's death a crime against humanity.
In June 2007, fifty years after her husband's disappearance, Madame Maurice Audin wrote to Nicolas Sarkozy, the then newly elected French president, asking him that the mystery of her husband's disappearance be cleared up and that France assume its responsibility in the affair.
In September 2018, president Emmanuel Macron admitted that Maurice Audin died under torture by French government in Algeria.