Claude Chevalley

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Claude Chevalley was a French mathematician renowned for his foundational contributions to algebraic geometry, number theory, and the theory of Lie groups and algebraic groups.

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Claude Chevalley canonical 10
Jean Dieudonné 1

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instanceOf French mathematician
human
mathematician
awardReceived Prix Poncelet
linked to: Poncelet Prize
birthCountry South Africa
birthDate 1909-02-11
birthPlace Johannesburg
citizenship France
cofounderOf Nicolas Bourbaki
contributedTo modern algebraic geometry foundations
structure theory of semisimple Lie algebras
countryOfDeath France
deathDate 1984-06-28
doctoralAdvisor Élie Cartan
educatedAt University of Paris
linked to: La Sorbonne

École Normale Supérieure
employer Columbia University
Princeton University
Université de Paris
linked to: Sorbonne University

Université de Paris VII
familyName Chevalley
fieldOfWork Lie groups
linked to: Lie group

algebraic geometry
algebraic groups
mathematics
number theory
givenName Claude
influenced the development of algebraic group theory
influencedBy Emmy Noether
Hermann Weyl
Élie Cartan
knownFor Chevalley groups
Chevalley–Warning theorem
Chevalley’s theorem in algebraic geometry
contributions to class field theory
contributions to number theory
foundational work in algebraic geometry
work on Lie algebras and Lie groups
language French
memberOf Bourbaki
linked to: Nicolas Bourbaki
name Claude Chevalley
nationality France
notableWork Fundamental Concepts of Algebra
Introduction to the Theory of Algebraic Functions of One Variable
Theory of Lie Groups
occupation university professor
placeOfDeath Paris

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Élie Cartan notableStudent Claude Chevalley
Élie Cartan notableStudent Jean Dieudonné
linked to: Claude Chevalley
Chevalley Prize in Lie Theory namedAfter Claude Chevalley
Claude Chevalley name Claude Chevalley
Moderne Algebra hasInfluentialReader Claude Chevalley
Bourbaki school of mathematics hasMember Claude Chevalley
Nicolas Bourbaki hasMember Claude Chevalley
Jean Dieudonné coAuthorWith Claude Chevalley
John Tate influencedBy Claude Chevalley