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Jean Dieudonné

1906 - 1992

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Jean Alexandre Eugène Dieudonné (French: [ʒɑ̃ alɛksɑ̃dʁ øʒɛn djødɔne]; 1 July 1906 – 29 November 1992) was a French mathematician, notable for research in abstract algebra, algebraic geometry, and functional analysis, for close involvement with the Nicolas Bourbaki pseudonymous group and the Éléments de géométrie algébrique project of Alexander Grothendieck, and as a historian of mathematics, particularly in the fields of functional analysis and algebraic topology. His work on the classical groups (the book La Géométrie des groupes classiques was published in 1955), and on formal groups, introducing what now are called Dieudonné modules, had a major effect on those fields. He was born and brought up in Lille, with a formative stay in England where he was introduced to algebra. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Dieudonné has received more than 156,888 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Dieudonné is the 347th most popular mathematician (down from 330th in 2019), the 2,468th most popular biography from France (down from 2,387th in 2019) and the 58th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jean Dieudonné ranks 347 out of 1,004. Before him are Gaston Julia, Gemma Frisius, Johann Radon, Zhu Shijie, Peter Barlow, and Karl Menger. After him are Ignazio Danti, Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Ernesto Cesàro, Rolf Nevanlinna, Antoine Gombaud, and Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Jean Dieudonné ranks 122. Before him are Musa Cälil, William Joyce, Ladislao Vajda, Jacques Pills, Jack Churchill, and Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar. After him are Philippe Halsman, Pierre Fournier, Gabriel Ramanantsoa, Antal Doráti, Jørgen Juve, and Mary Astor. Among people deceased in 1992, Jean Dieudonné ranks 86. Before him are Camarón de la Isla, Heinrich Eberbach, Dick York, Ajahn Chah, Muhammad Asad, and Richard Brooks. After him are Audre Lorde, Wang Hongwen, Arpad Elo, Josy Barthel, Fritz Leiber, and Giorgio Perlasca.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Dieudonné ranks 2,468 out of 6,770. Before him are Quatremère de Quincy (1755), François Devienne (1759), Alexandre Exquemelin (1646), Henri Wallon (1879), Nicole Fontaine (1942), and Gustave Boulanger (1824). After him are Ford Madox Brown (1821), Henri Tresca (1814), Duke Philipp of Württemberg (1838), Paul Frère (1917), Ariane Mnouchkine (1939), and Guy Bonnet (1945).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Jean Dieudonné ranks 58. Before him are Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816), Oronce Finé (1494), Maurice René Fréchet (1878), Alain Connes (1947), René-Louis Baire (1874), and Guillaume Postel (1510). After him are Antoine Gombaud (1607), Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde (1735), Jean-Marie Duhamel (1797), Albert Girard (1595), Pierre Alphonse Laurent (1813), and Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (1797).

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