Mathematician:André Abraham Weil

Mathematician
French mathematician who known for his foundational work in number theory and algebraic geometry.

Founding member and early leader of the. Brother of the philosopher.

Nationality
French

History

 * Born: 6 May 1906, Paris, France
 * Died: 6 August 1998 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Theorems and Definitions

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

Publications

 * 1935: Arithmétique et géométrie sur les variétés algébriques
 * 1937: Sur les espaces à structure uniforme et sur la topologie générale
 * 1940: L'intégration dans les groupes topologiques et ses applications
 * 1946: Foundations of Algebraic Geometry
 * 1948: Sur les courbes algébriques et les variétés qui s’en déduisent
 * 1948: Variétés abéliennes et courbes algébriques
 * 1958: Introduction à l'étude des variétés kählériennes
 * 1958: Discontinuous subgroups of classical groups
 * 1967: Basic number theory
 * 1971: Dirichlet Series and Automorphic Forms, Lezioni Fermiane
 * 1975: Essais historiques sur la théorie des nombres
 * 1976: Elliptic Functions According to Eisenstein and Kronecker
 * 1979: Number Theory for Beginners (with )
 * 1982: Adeles and Algebraic Groups
 * 1984: Number Theory: An Approach Through History From Hammurapi to Legendre
 * 1984: Number Theory: An Approach Through History From Hammurapi to Legendre

Notable Quotes

 * If logic is the hygiene of the mathematician, it is not his source of food; the great problems furnish the daily bread on which he thrives.