Author of nine books: •
Topics in Arithmetical Functions, North-Holland, 1980 • ''Approche élémentaire de l'étude des fonctions arithmétiques'', Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 1982 •
Introduction à la théorie des nombres, Modulo, Montréal, 1994 •
1001 problèmes en théorie classique des nombres (with Armel Mercier), Ellipses, Paris, 2004 • ''Mathématiques de l'ingénieur'', Éditions Loze, Montréal, 2004 •
1001 Problems in Classical Number Theory (with Armel Mercier),
American Mathematical Society, 2007 (English edition of
1001 problèmes en théorie classique des nombres) •
Ces nombres qui nous fascinent, Ellipses, Paris, 2008 •
En chair et en maths, Septembre Éditeur, Québec, 2008 •
Those Fascinating Numbers, American Mathematical Society, 2009 (English edition of
Ces nombres qui nous fascinent) Author of 83 publications in scientific papers with reviewing committees. Author of the SMAC chronicle in the
Découvrir revue (five publications per year). Guest speaker in several Canadian and American universities, as well as in France, Germany, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Mexico. Co-president of the organizing committee of the International Conference on Number Theory held in Université Laval from July 5 to July 18, 1987. Co-president of the organizing committee of the 33rd Seminar of Mathematical Sciences of Quebec held in Université Laval on April 21, 1990. Member of the FQRNT's Board of Directors from 2001 to 2008. President of the 70th ACFAS Congress held in Université Laval from May 13 to May 17, 2002. Research Director of four PhD students and 12 Masters students. President of the Association mathématique du Québec from 2005 to 2007. Member of the ACFAS' Board of Directors from 2005 to 2007. De Koninck is an analytic
number theorist. He has worked on the distribution of
prime numbers, factorization methods, the asymptotic behavior of arithmetic functions, and the
Riemann zeta function. He is the author of more than 50 peer-reviewed research papers.
Contributions to the dissemination and popularization of mathematics • Research and animation of a Canadian television series ''C'est mathématique!'' ("It's mathematical!") broadcast on Z Network and produced by Téléfiction. The first series (16 episodes of 30 minutes) was broadcast during winter of 2000 and the second series (13 episodes of one hour) during winter of 2001. Both series were bought by the TFO Network (Télévision française de l'Ontario/Ontario French Television) in 2001: since then, they are on air each fall. They are broadcast as well on Canal Savoir. The goal pursued by ''C'est mathématique!'' is to demonstrate to a general audience that mathematics are present in almost all areas of human activity, and somehow in our everyday lives. It deals with the presence of mathematics in finance, meteorology, medical treatments, aviation, lotteries, sports, message encoding (cryptography), food, etc. • Organizer of "Popular Lectures on current mathematics" (given on three consecutive days in April 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002): This is a series of presentations by students graduating in mathematics and intended for students and professors from colleges and universities. • Organizer, during the summers of 1991, 1992 and 1993, of the AMQ (Association mathématique du Québec/Quebec Mathematics Association) Mathematics Camp, an annual summer event bringing together the 25 best mathematics students from colleges. • Organizer of La Quinzaine des Sciences held in October 1996 at Université Laval: a series of popular lectures on sciences intended for a general audience. • Guest speaker in several colleges of Quebec, as part of lectures organized by the ISM (Institut des sciences mathématiques du Québec/Mathematics Sciences Institute of Quebec) since year 2000. Lectures were given in the following colleges: CEGEP Ste-Foy, CEGEP F.X. Garneau, CEGEP d'Ahuntsic, CEGEP Édouard Montpetit, Collège Brébeuf and CEGEP of Chibougamau (with videoconference). • Guest speaker invited by the Association française pour l'enseignement des mathématiques en Ontario (French Association for Mathematics Education in Ontario) on November 16, 2000. The lecture title was "Des équations et des hommes" ("Of Equations and Men"), in which the speaker was demonstrating that behind most of the important mathematical discoveries, we can find passionate and profoundly human persons. • Guest speaker at the Congress "Des mathématiques pour le monde (Mathematics for the people)" organized in May 2000 by a gathering of all organizations involved in mathematics education at all levels. • Invited by the GRMS (Groupe de recherche sur les mathématiques au secondaire/research group on high school mathematics) to pronounce the opening lecture of the May 2002 Congress. • Invited by the Canadian Mathematical Society to pronounce the general audience lecture at the June 2002 Congress. • Invited by the Canadian Mathematical Society, at the Canadian Forum on Mathematics Education, to pronounce the general audience lecture, on May 16, 2003. • On a regular basis since 1990, he gives interviews on mathematics-related subjects on several television networks (Radio-Canada, TVA, TQS and many other community stations) and various radio stations. ==Community involvement==