Jean-Pierre Serre is a French mathematician who has made contributions to algebraic topology, algebraic geometry and algebraic number theory.
10 Facts About Jean-Pierre Serre
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Jean-Pierre Serre was awarded the Fields Medal in 1954, the Wolf Prize in 2000 and the inaugural Abel Prize in 2003.
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Jean-Pierre Serre was awarded his doctorate from the Sorbonne in 1951.
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Jean-Pierre Serre's wife, Professor Josiane Heulot-Serre, was a chemist; she was the director of the Ecole Normale Superieure de Jeunes Filles.
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Two major foundational papers by Jean-Pierre Serre were Faisceaux Algebriques Coherents, on coherent cohomology, and Geometrie Algebrique et Geometrie Analytique.
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From 1959 onward Jean-Pierre Serre's interests turned towards group theory, number theory, in particular Galois representations and modular forms.
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Jean-Pierre Serre went on to win the Balzan Prize in 1985, the Steele Prize in 1995, the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2000, and was the first recipient of the Abel Prize in 2003.
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Jean-Pierre Serre has been awarded other prizes, such as the Gold Medal of the French National Scientific Research Centre.
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Jean-Pierre Serre is a foreign member of several scientific Academies and has received many honorary degrees.
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Jean-Pierre Serre has been awarded the highest honors in France as Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour and Grand Cross of the Legion of Merit.