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 Raoul Bott and John Willard Milnor)

Results named for Michel André Kervaire can be found here.

Publications

• 1955: Courbure intégrale généralisée et homotopie (Ph.D. thesis)
• 1960: A manifold which does not admit any differentiable structure
• 1963: Groups of Homotopy Spheres (with John Milnor)