Mathematician:Armand Borel

Mathematician
Swiss mathematician who worked in algebraic topology and the theory of Lie groups.

One of the creators of the contemporary theory of linear algebraic groups.

Nationality
Swiss

History

 * Born: 21 May 1923 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
 * Died: 11 August 2003 in Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Theorems and Definitions

 * Borel Cohomology
 * Borel Conjecture
 * Borel Construction
 * Borel Subgroup
 * Borel Subalgebra


 * Borel-de Siebenthal Theory (with )
 * Borel-Moore Homology (with )
 * Baily-Borel Compactification (with )


 * Borel Fixed-Point Theorem
 * Borel's Theorem


 * Borel-Bott-Weil Theorem (with and ) (also known as Borel-Weil-Bott Theorem)

Publications

 * 1960: Seminar on transformation groups