André Weil

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French mathematician human mathematician

André Weil was a prominent 20th-century French mathematician known for foundational contributions to number theory, algebraic geometry, and the development of the Weil conjectures.

Statements (55)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French mathematician → human → mathematician →
awardReceived	Cole Prize in Number Theory → National Medal of Science → Wolf Prize in Mathematics →
countryOfCitizenship	France →
dateOfBirth	1906-05-06 →
dateOfDeath	1998-08-06 →
doctoralAdvisor	Jacques Hadamard →
educatedAt	University of Paris → École Normale Supérieure →
employer	Aligarh Muslim University → Institute for Advanced Study → University of Chicago → Université de Strasbourg → Université de São Paulo →
familyName	Weil →
fieldOfWork	algebra → algebraic geometry → mathematics → number theory → representation theory → topology →
givenName	André →
hasAcademicDiscipline	arithmetic geometry →
languageOfWorkOrName	English → French →
memberOf	American Academy of Arts and Sciences → Bourbaki → French Academy of Sciences → Nicolas Bourbaki → Royal Society →
notableConcept	Weil cohomology → Weil divisor → Weil group → Weil height → Weil pairing → Weil representation → Weil restriction →
notableWork	Adeles and Algebraic Groups → Basic Number Theory → Foundations of Algebraic Geometry → L’intégration dans les groupes topologiques et ses applications → Number Theory: An Approach through History from Hammurapi to Legendre → Sur les courbes algébriques et les variétés qui s’en déduisent → Weil conjectures →
occupation	university teacher →
placeOfBirth	France → Paris →
placeOfDeath	New Jersey → Princeton → United States of America →
sexOrGender	male →
sibling	Simone Weil →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Hermann Weyl → Élie Cartan →	notableStudent
School of Mathematics →	employerOf
Disquisitiones Arithmeticae →	hasInfluencedPerson
Annals of Mathematics Studies →	hasNotableAuthor
Institute for Advanced Study →	notableScholar