1. Claude Chevalley was a founding member of the Bourbaki group.
11 Facts About Claude Chevalley
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Claude Chevalley's father, Abel Chevalley, was a French diplomat who, jointly with his wife Marguerite Chevalley nee Sabatier, wrote The Concise Oxford French Dictionary.
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Claude Chevalley then spent time at the University of Hamburg, studying under Emil Artin and at the University of Marburg, studying under Helmut Hasse.
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In Germany, Claude Chevalley discovered Japanese mathematics in the person of Shokichi Iyanaga.
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Claude Chevalley was awarded a doctorate in 1933 from the University of Paris for a thesis on class field theory.
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When World War II broke out, Claude Chevalley was at Princeton University.
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Claude Chevalley was the "professeur B" of the piece, as confirmed in the endnote to the reprint in Weil's collected works, Oeuvres Scientifiques, tome II.
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Claude Chevalley eventually did obtain a position in 1957 at the faculty of sciences of the University of Paris and after 1970 at the Universite de Paris VII.
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Claude Chevalley had artistic and political interests, and was a minor member of the French non-conformists of the 1930s.
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Around 1950, Claude Chevalley wrote a three-volume treatment of Lie groups.
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Claude Chevalley groups make up 9 of the 18 families of finite simple groups.