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 106 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 314 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).