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Jean-Pierre Serre

1926 - Today

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Jean-Pierre Serre (French: [sɛʁ]; born 15 September 1926) is a French mathematician who has made contributions to algebraic topology, algebraic geometry and algebraic number theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Pierre Serre has received more than 465,421 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Jean-Pierre Serre is the 180th most popular mathematician (down from 175th in 2019), the 1,284th most popular biography from France (down from 1,250th in 2019) and the 37th most popular French Mathematician.

Jean-Pierre Serre is most famous for his work in algebraic geometry. He introduced the idea of a scheme, which is a generalization of the notion of a curve.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jean-Pierre Serre ranks 180 out of 823. Before him are Vito Volterra, George Pólya, Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Ernst Kummer, Ahmes, and Michael Atiyah. After him are Camille Jordan, Maria Reiche, Étienne-Louis Malus, Theaetetus, Ibn Yunus, and Paul Guldin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Jean-Pierre Serre ranks 73. Before him are Joan Sutherland, César Pelli, Shohei Imamura, Kim Jae-gyu, Gyula Grosics, and Henry Way Kendall. After him are Masatoshi Koshiba, Alan Greenspan, Andrew Schally, John Berger, Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco, and Gus Grissom.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Pierre Serre ranks 1,284 out of 6,011. Before him are Maurice Thorez (1900), Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (1435), Pierre Larousse (1817), Michel de Certeau (1925), Henri, Count of Paris (1908), and Jean-Marc Nattier (1685). After him are Camille Jordan (1838), John III of Navarre (1477), Étienne Gilson (1884), Philipp Spener (1635), Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy (1334), and Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Jean-Pierre Serre ranks 37. Before him are Gabriel Lamé (1795), Étienne Bézout (1730), Jean Gaston Darboux (1842), André Weil (1906), René Thom (1923), and Pierre Bouguer (1698). After him are Camille Jordan (1838), Étienne-Louis Malus (1775), Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801), Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749), Laurent Schwartz (1915), and Édouard Lucas (1842).

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