André Weil

Also known as Andre Weil

French mathematician (1906-1998)

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Born: 1906
Died: 1998
Works: 77

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Diamaches gia tēn historia tōn archaiōn hellēnikōn mathēmatikōn
L'arithmétique sur les courbes algébriques
Discontinuous Subgroups of Classical groups
Foundations of Algebraic Geometry (Colloquium Publications (Amer Mathematical Soc))
Algebras with involutions and the classical groups

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Germany
Active from: 1989

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5 total works indexed

Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,520x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,393x
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,815x
Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 9,767x
Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,393x

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Quotes

“In mathematics, perhaps more than in any other branch of knowledge, ideas spring fully armed from the creator's brain; thus mathematical talent usually reveals itself at a young age; and second-rate researchers play a smaller role than elsewhere, the role of a sounding board for a sound they do not contribute to shape.”
“God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.”
“First rank scientists recruit first rank scientists, but second rank scientists tend to recruit third rank scientists, third rank scientists recruit fifth rank, and so on. If the director of the Department is genuinely interested in preserving the high quality of his Institute, he must exercise all of his power to put things in their right place, otherwise the deterioration process is destined to diverge indefinitely.”
“An important point is that the p-adic field, or respectively the real or complex field, corresponding to a prime ideal, plays exactly the role, in arithmetic, that the field of power series in the neighborhood of a point plays in the theory of functions: that is why one calls it a local field.”
“About ancient mathematics (whether Greek or Mesopotamian) and medieval mathematics (Western or Oriental), the would-be historian must of necessity confine himself to the description of a comparatively small number of islands accidentally emerging from an ocean of ignorance, and to tenuous conjectural reconstructions of the submerged continents which at one time must have bridged the gaps between them.”
“We should ask our fellow physicists to invent a principle of anti-interference, which would bring light out of two obscurities (Leray and Grothendieck).”

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Key facts

Born: ( 1906-05-06 ) 6 May 1906, Paris, France
Died: 6 August 1998 (1998-08-06) (aged 92), Princeton, New Jersey , U.S.
Education: University of Paris École Normale Supérieure
Awards: Wolf Prize (1979) Leroy P. Steele Prize (1980) Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science (1980) Kyoto Prize (1994) ForMemRS (1966)
Fields: Mathematics
Institutions: Lehigh University Universidade de São Paulo (1945–47) University of Chicago (1947–58) Institute for Advanced Study
Doctoral advisor: Jacques Hadamard Charles Émile Picard
Doctoral students: Pierre Cartier Harley Flanders William A. Howard Teruhisa Matsusaka Peter Swinnerton-Dyer Alexandre Augusto Martins Rodrigues

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date of birth: 1906-05-06
date of death: 1998-08-06
Erdős number: 4
Commons category: André Weil
name in native language: André Weil
birth name: André Abraham Weil
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André Weil (/veɪ/; French: [ɑ̃dʁe vɛj]; 6 May 1906 – 6 August 1998) was a French mathematician, known for his foundational work in number theory and algebraic geometry. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century. His influence is due both to his original contributions to a remarkably broad spectrum of mathematical theories, and to the mark he left on mathematical practice and style, through some of his own works as well as through the Bourbaki group, of which he was one of the principal founders.

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