Roger Meyer Temam (born 19 May 1940) is a College Professor of mathematics at The Indiana University, Bloomington. According to Mathematics Genealogy Project, (in the beginning of 2009) Temam has supervised 103 Ph.D. thesis; this is the highest number Ph.D. thesis supervised by an individual in the field of mathematics. He has a total of 281 mathematical descendants. He is known for his contribution to the theory of Navier—Stokes equations.
Temam was advised by Jacques-Louis Lions at the Université de Paris. He finished his dissertation in 1967. He was elected to the French Academy of Sciences on December 11, 2007 (while at Indiana University). From 1967 to 2003, Temam held a professorship at Université Paris-Sud (Orsay).
In the mid-1980s, Temam came to Indiana University to work with Ciprian Foias. Indiana made him a "a very nice offer." He taught at both Indiana and in France for some time. While at Indiana, Temam served as the director of the Institute for Scientific Computing and Applied Mathematics at IU.
R. Temam, Navier-Stokes Equations: Theory and Numerical Analysis, American Mathematical Society (2001). ISBN 0821827375
R. Temam, Infinite Dimensonal Dynamical Systems in Mechanics and Physics, 2nd ed., Springer (1997). ISBN 038794866X
C. Foias, Manley, O., Rosa, R., and Temam, R., Navier-Stokes Equations and Turbulence, Cambridge University Press (2001). ISBN 0521360323
I. Ekeland and Témam, R., Convex Analysis and Variational Problems, Society for Industrial Mathematics (1987). ISBN 0898714508
R. Temam and Miranville, A., Mathematical Modeling in Continuum Mechanics, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press (2005). ISBN 0521617235
P. Constantin, Foias, C., Nicolaenko, B., and Temam, R., Integral Manifolds and Inertial Manifolds for Dissipative Partial Differential Equations, Springer-Verlag, Applies Mathematical Sciences Series, Vol.70 (1988)