Jean-Pierre Serre

Jean-Pierre Serre
Jean-Pierre Serre at Oberwolfach in 2009
Born	(1926-09-15) 15 September 1926 Bages, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
Nationality	French
Alma mater	École Normale Supérieure University of Paris
Awards	Fields Medal (1954) Balzan Prize (1985) CNRS Gold medal (1987) Steele Prize (1995) Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2000) Abel Prize (2003)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Collège de France
Doctoral advisor	Henri Cartan
Doctoral students	Michel Broué Jean-Marc Fontaine

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. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1954 and the first Abel Prize in 2003.

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Other websites

• Jean-Pierre Serre, Collège de France, biography and publications.
• Jean-Pierre Serre Archived 2007-06-11 at the Wayback Machine at the French Academy of Sciences, in French.
• Interview with Jean-Pierre Serre in Notices of the American Mathematical Society.
• An Interview with Jean-Pierre Serre by C.T. Chong and Y.K. Leong, National University of Singapore.
• How to write mathematics badly a public lecture by Jean-Pierre Serre on writing mathematics.
• Biographical page Archived 2007-06-11 at the Wayback Machine (in French)