François Bruhat
| François Bruhat | |
|---|---|
| Born |
8 April 1929 Paris |
| Died | 17 July 2007 (aged 78) |
| Nationality | French |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure |
François Georges René Bruhat (French: [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.
References
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "François Bruhat", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
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