Mathematician:Michel André Kervaire

Mathematician
French mathematician who made significant contributions to topology and algebra.

Nationality
French

History

 * Born: 26 April 1927 in Częstochowa, Poland
 * Died: 19 November 2007 in Geneva, Switzerland

Theorems and Definitions

 * Kervaire Semi-Characteristic
 * Kervaire Invariant Problem
 * Bott-Milnor-Kervaire 1,2,4,8 Theorem (with and )

Publications

 * 1955: Courbure intégrale généralisée et homotopie (Ph.D. thesis)
 * 1960: A manifold which does not admit any differentiable structure