André Weil
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- Born
- ( 1906-05-06 ) 6 May 1906, Paris, France
- Died
- 6 August 1998 (1998-08-06) (aged 92), Princeton, New Jersey , U.S.
- Education
- University of Paris École Normale Supérieure
- Awards
- Wolf Prize (1979) Leroy P. Steele Prize (1980) Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science (1980) Kyoto Prize (1994) ForMemRS (1966)
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- Lehigh University Universidade de São Paulo (1945–47) University of Chicago (1947–58) Institute for Advanced Study
- Doctoral advisor
- Jacques Hadamard Charles Émile Picard
- Doctoral students
- Pierre Cartier Harley Flanders William A. Howard Teruhisa Matsusaka Peter Swinnerton-Dyer Alexandre Augusto Martins Rodrigues
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André Weil (/veɪ/; French: [ɑ̃dʁe vɛj]; 6 May 1906 – 6 August 1998) was a French mathematician, known for his foundational work in number theory and algebraic geometry. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century. His influence is due both to his original contributions to a remarkably broad spectrum of mathematical theories, and to the mark he left on mathematical practice and style, through some of his own works as well as through the Bourbaki group, of which he was one of the principal founders.
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