André Weil

Details

Instance of

human

Born

6 May 1906

Died

6 August 1998

Place of birth

Paris

Place of death

Princeton

Sex or gender

male

Given name

André, Abraham

Family name

Weil

Child

Sylvie Weil

Sibling

Simone Weil

Field of work

algebraic geometry, number theory, mathematics

Occupation

mathematician, historian of mathematics, university teacher

Citizenship

France

Awards

Guggenheim Fellowship, Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences, Wolf Prize in Mathematics, Leroy P. Steele Prize, Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Prix Francoeur, Cours Peccot

academic thesis

L’arithmétique sur les courbes algébriques

birth name

André Abraham Weil

doctoral advisor

Jacques Hadamard, Charles Émile Picard

doctoral student

Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, Pierre Cartier, Harley Flanders, William Alvin Howard, Arnold S. Shapiro, Norman Tyson Hamilton, Frank Douglas Quigley, David Hertzig, William Lind Hoyt, Martin Segal, Alexandre Rodrigues

educated at

École Normale Supérieure, Science Faculty of Paris, Lycée Saint-Louis, Lycée Montaigne, University of Göttingen

employer

University of Chicago, University of São Paulo, Aligarh Muslim University, University of Strasbourg, Haverford College, Lehigh University, Institute for Advanced Study

Erdős number

4

languages spoken, written or signed

French, English

member of

Royal Society, French Academy of Sciences, Nicolas Bourbaki, National Academy of Sciences, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, International Academy of the History of Science, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, American Philosophical Society

member of ethnic group

Jewish people

name in native language

André Weil

notable work

Borel–Weil theorem, De Rham–Weil theorem, Mordell–Weil theorem, Oka–Weil theorem, Shafarevich–Weil theorem, Borel–Weil–Bott theorem, Weil conjectures, Siegel–Weil formula, Bergman–Weil formula, Chern–Weil theory, Chern–Weil homomorphism, Hasse–Weil zeta function

place of burial

Princeton Cemetery

place of detention

Rouen remand center, Helsinki

student

Elza Furtado Gomide, Teruhisa Matsusaka, Carlos Benjamin de Lyra

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