Jean-Pierre Serre

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French mathematician human mathematician

Jean-Pierre Serre is a French mathematician renowned for his foundational contributions to algebraic topology, algebraic geometry, and number theory, and is considered one of the most influential mathematicians of the 20th century.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French mathematician → human → mathematician →
AbelPrizeYear	2003 →
awardReceived	Abel Prize → Balzan Prize → CNRS Gold Medal → Crafoord Prize → Fields Medal → Steele Prize → Sylvester Medal → Wolf Prize in Mathematics →
birthDate	1926-09-15 →
birthPlace	Bages, Pyrénées-Orientales, France →
countryOfCitizenship	France →
doctoralAdvisor	Henri Cartan →
educatedAt	École Normale Supérieure →
employer	Collège de France → Université de Nancy → Université de Paris →
familyName	Serre →
fieldOfWork	Galois theory → algebraic K-theory → algebraic geometry → algebraic topology → automorphic forms → group theory → homotopy theory → number theory → representation theory →
FieldsMedalYear	1954 →
givenName	Jean-Pierre →
knownFor	foundational contributions to algebraic geometry → foundational contributions to algebraic topology → foundational contributions to number theory →
languageOfWorkOrName	French →
memberOf	Académie des Sciences (France) → French Academy of Sciences → Royal Society → United States National Academy of Sciences →
name	Jean-Pierre Serre →
notableAchievement	youngest-ever recipient of the Fields Medal →
notableWork	A Course in Arithmetic → Cohomologie Galoisienne → GAGA (Géométrie Algébrique et Géométrie Analytique) → Lie Algebras and Lie Groups → Local Fields → Serre duality → Serre spectral sequence → Serre’s conjecture on Galois representations → Serre’s conjecture on modular forms →
positionHeld	professor at Collège de France →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
School of Mathematics →	employerOf
Jean-Pierre Serre ("Serre") →	familyName
Wolf Prize in Mathematics →	hasLaureate
Annals of Mathematics Studies →	hasNotableAuthor
Wolf Foundation →	hasNotableLaureate
Collège de France →	hasNotableProfessor
Andrew Wiles →	influencedBy
Jean-Pierre Serre →	name