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Key facts
- 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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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Abraham
- Family name
- Weil
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Paris
- Place of death
- Princeton
- Child
- Sylvie Weil
- Sibling
- Simone Weil
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- University of Göttingen
- Employer
- Institute for Advanced Study
- Languages spoken
- French
- Doctoral advisor
- Charles Émile Picard
- Field of work
- mathematics
- Image
- André Weil, 1968 (cropped).jpg
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- American Philosophical Society
- date of birth
- 1906-05-06
- date of death
- 1998-08-06
- Erdős number
- 4
- Commons category
- André Weil
- name in native language
- André Weil
- place of detention
- Helsinki
- ethnic group
- Jewish people
- birth name
- André Abraham Weil
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- WikiProject Mathematics
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- Davide Antonio Fossati
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Encyclopedic overview
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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