Nationality French Died July 17, 2007 | Role Mathematician Name Francois Bruhat Fields Mathematics | |
Born 8 April 1929
Paris ( 1929-04-08 ) Alma mater Ecole Normale Superieure | ||
Education Ecole Normale Superieure | ||
François Georges René Bruhat ([bʁy.a]; 8 April 1929 – 17 July 2007) was a French mathematician who worked on algebraic groups. The Bruhat order of a Weyl group, the Bruhat decomposition, and the Schwartz–Bruhat functions are named after him.
He was the son of physicist (and associate director of the École Normale Supérieure during the occupation) Georges Bruhat, and brother of physicist Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat.
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