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MATHEMATICIAN

André Weil

1906 - 1998

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André Weil (; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of André Weil has received more than 509,266 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). André Weil is the 170th most popular mathematician (up from 174th in 2019), the 1,231st most popular biography from France (up from 1,246th in 2019) and the 34th most popular French Mathematician.

André Weil is most famous for his work on the Weil Conjectures, which are a set of conjectures in number theory.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, André Weil ranks 170 out of 823Before him are Jost Bürgi, Jean Gaston Darboux, Wacław Sierpiński, Zu Chongzhi, Colin Maclaurin, and Conon of Samos. After him are Wang Chong, René Thom, Pierre Bouguer, Vito Volterra, George Pólya, and Mikhail Ostrogradsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, André Weil ranks 63Before him are Max Delbrück, Ettore Majorana, Vera Menchik, James Hadley Chase, Fredric Brown, and Anthony Mann. After him are Muzafer Sherif, Douglas McGregor, Chandra Shekhar Azad, Heinz Harmel, John Dickson Carr, and Nelson Goodman. Among people deceased in 1998, André Weil ranks 34Before him are Alan Hodgkin, Conrad Schumann, Julien Green, Lúcio Costa, Alan J. Pakula, and David McClelland. After him are Otto Wichterle, Linda McCartney, Florence Griffith Joyner, Maria Reiche, Derek Barton, and Ernst-Günther Schenck.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Weil ranks 1,231 out of 6,011Before him are Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1698), Fanny Ardant (1949), Adalberon (947), Laurent Blanc (1965), Prince Jean, Duke of Guise (1874), and Édouard Mortier, Duke of Trévise (1768). After him are Ernest Gellner (1925), René Thom (1923), Francis I, Duke of Lorraine (1517), Jaufre Rudel (1125), André Masson (1896), and Pierre Bouguer (1698).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, André Weil ranks 34Before him are Michel Rolle (1652), Jacques Hadamard (1865), Joseph Liouville (1809), Gabriel Lamé (1795), Étienne Bézout (1730), and Jean Gaston Darboux (1842). After him are René Thom (1923), Pierre Bouguer (1698), Jean-Pierre Serre (1926), Camille Jordan (1838), Étienne-Louis Malus (1775), and Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801).