Andre Weil

@Mathematicians, Life Achievements and Facts ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Andre Weil was a French mathematician who laid the foundation of number theory and algebraic geometry Child Prodigies French Scientists Mathematicians Taurus Celebrities Andre Weil was a French mathematician who laid the foundation of number theory and algebraic geometry. He was also a gifted linguist who read Sanskrit and many other languages, and was a sympathetic expert on Indian religious writings. He was a child prodigy and was drawn towards mathematics at a very young age. His interest met with full support from his family and he decided to pursue it as his profession. His mathematical genius is evident from his research on wide variety of subjects such as algebra, number theory, algebraic geometry, differential geometry, topology, Lie groups and Lie algebras. His most important achievement was the discovery of profound connections between algebraic geometry and the number theory. He was also fond of traveling and linguistics, with a deep respect for all the religions, especially Hinduism. During his stay in India, he was spiritually enlightened, an experience which stayed with him until the end. He also faced imprisonment for neglecting his duties in the French Army but was released after a while. He served as the professor of mathematics, throughout his life, in numerous universities around the world. His life was dedicated to mathematical study and he is counted among one of the most brilliant and influential mathematicians of the 20th century.

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Birthday: May 6, 1906 Died on: August 6, 1998 Nationality: French Famous: Child Prodigies, Scientists, Mathematicians Spouses: Éveline Siblings: Simone Weil Universities: École Normale Supérieure University of Paris Aligarh Muslim University Information Detail Birthday May 6, 1906 Died on August 6, 1998 Nationality French Famous Child Prodigies, Scientists, Mathematicians Spouses Éveline Siblings Simone Weil Universities École Normale Supérieure University of Paris Aligarh Muslim University Birth Place Paris, France Gender Male Sun Sign Taurus Born in Paris, France Famous as Mathematician Died at Age 92

Paris, France

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He married Eveline in 1937. The couple had two daughters, namely, Sylvie and Nicolette. Unsplash Personal Life

He died on August 6, 1998, at the age of 92, in Princeton, New Jersey. Unsplash Personal Life

He was born on May 6, 1906 in Paris, France, to Bernard Bernhard Weil, a medical doctor and his wife, Salomea Reinherz. He had a younger sister, Simone Adolphine Weil, who later became a famous philosopher. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

By the age of 10, he developed a keen interest in mathematics. He was also passionate about traveling and studying different languages. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

He was religious from an early age and by the age of 16, he had read the "Bhagavad Gita" in the original Sanskrit. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

In 1925–26 he studied algebraic geometry of Italian mathematicians while in Rome. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

He traveled to Germany for his fellowship at Göttingen, where he studied the number theory of German mathematicians. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

For his first job as a professor, he traveled to India and taught mathematics at the Aligarh Muslim University, Uttar Pradesh, from 1930 to 1932. Unsplash Career

After that, he returned to France and taught at the University of Marseille for a year. Then he was appointed at the University of Strasbourg, where he served from 1933 to 1940. Unsplash Career

In 1939, he was mistakenly arrested for spying in Finland, when the Second World War broke out, while he was wandering in Scandinavia. Unsplash Career

On his return to France in 1940, he was again arrested for failing to report on his duty in the French Army and was imprisoned in Le Havre and then Rouen. Unsplash Career

During his stay in prison, he completed his most celebrated work in mathematics—he proved the Riemann hypothesis for curves over finite fields. Unsplash Career

During the 1930s, he introduced the adele ring, a topological ring in algebraic number theory and topological algebra, which is built on the field of rational numbers. Unsplash Major Works

One of his major accomplishments were the 1940s proof of the Riemann hypothesis for zeta-functions of curves over finite fields and his subsequent laying of proper foundations for algebraic geometry to support that result. Unsplash Major Works

He also developed the Weil representation, an infinite-dimensional linear representation of theta functions which gave a contemporary framework for understanding the classical theory of quadratic forms. Unsplash Major Works

His work on algebraic curves has influenced a wide variety of areas such as, elementary particle physics and string theory. Unsplash Major Works

Information	Detail
Birthday	May 6, 1906
Died on	August 6, 1998
Nationality	French
Famous	Child Prodigies, Scientists, Mathematicians
Spouses	Éveline
Siblings	Simone Weil
Universities	École Normale Supérieure University of Paris Aligarh Muslim University
Birth Place	Paris, France
Gender	Male
Sun Sign	Taurus
Born in	Paris, France
Famous as	Mathematician
Died at Age	92

Andre Weil

French

May 6, 1906

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Paris, France