Jean Dieudonné
French mathematician (1906–1992) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jean Alexandre Eugène Dieudonné (French: [ʒɑ̃ alɛksɑ̃dʁ øʒɛn djødɔne]; 1 July 1906 – 29 November 1992) was a French mathematician, notable for research in abstract algebra, algebraic geometry, and functional analysis, for close involvement with the Nicolas Bourbaki pseudonymous group and the Éléments de géométrie algébrique project of Alexander Grothendieck, and as a historian of mathematics, particularly in the fields of functional analysis and algebraic topology. His work on the classical groups (the book La Géométrie des groupes classiques was published in 1955), and on formal groups, introducing what now are called Dieudonné modules, had a major effect on those fields.
Jean Dieudonné | |
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Born | Jean Alexandre Eugène Dieudonné (1906-07-01)1 July 1906 |
Died | 29 November 1992(1992-11-29) (aged 86) Paris, France |
Nationality | French |
Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure |
Known for | Cartan–Dieudonné theorem Dieudonné complete space Dieudonné determinant Dieudonné plank Dieudonné module Dieudonné's theorem Paracompact space |
Awards | Lester R. Ford Award (1973) Leroy P. Steele Prize (1971) Prix Francoeur (1938) Peccot Lecture (1933) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | |
Doctoral advisor | Paul Montel |
Doctoral students | Alexander Grothendieck Paulo Ribenboim |
He was born and brought up in Lille, with a formative stay in England where he was introduced to algebra. In 1924 he was admitted to the École Normale Supérieure, where André Weil was a classmate.[1] He began working in complex analysis. In 1934 he was one of the group of normaliens convened by Weil, which would become 'Bourbaki'.