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   Claude Chevalley ( French: [ʃəvalɛ]; 11 February 1909 – 28 June 1984) was a French mathematician who made important contributions to number theory, algebraic geometry, class field theory, finite group theory and the theory of algebraic groups. He was a founding member of the Bourbaki group.

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   Biography. Claude Chevalley was the only son of Abel and Marguerite Chevalley who were the authors of the Oxford Concise French Dictionary. He studied under Émile Picard at the École Normale Supérieur in Paris, graduating in 1929. After graduating Chevalley continued his studies in Germany, studying under Artin at Hamburg during session 1931-32.

4. www.encyclopedia.com › claude-chevalleyClaude Chevalley | Encyclopedia.com

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   Chevalley worked in several mathematical areas: class field theory; algebraic geometry; and early studies of the theory of local rings. He won the Cole Prize of the American Mathematical Society in 1941 and was a life member of the London Mathematical Society.

5. www.ams.org › bull › 1987/17/01CLAUDE CHEVALLEY (1909-1984) - American Mathematical Society

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   CLAUDE CHEVALLEY (1909-1984) 3 In 1939, Chevalley had been invited for a semester to the Institute for Advanced Study, and he was in Princeton when the war broke out. The French ambassador suggested that he stay in the USA for the time being, and after the German invasion he could not go home. He was offered a position on the

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6. www.britannica.com › biography › Claude-ChevalleyClaude Chevalley | French mathematician | Britannica

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   Claude Chevalley. French mathematician. Learn about this topic in these articles: work in Bourbaki. In mathematics: Developments in pure mathematics.

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   The most resolute modernizer among the founders of Bourbaki, and the most given to austere axiomatic abstraction, Chevalley was influential in setting the broad agenda of Bourbaki’s project and for major advances in number theory and the theory of Lie groups.

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   Who was Claude Chevalley?

   • Claude Chevalley ( French: [ʃəvalɛ]; 11 February 1909 – 28 June 1984) was a French mathematician who made important contributions to number theory, algebraic geometry, class field theory, finite group theory and the theory of algebraic groups. He was a founding member of the Bourbaki group.

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   Who was Abel Chevalley?

   • He was a founding member of the Bourbaki group. His father, Abel Chevalley, was a French diplomat who, jointly with his wife Marguerite Chevalley née Sabatier, wrote The Concise Oxford French Dictionary. Chevalley graduated from the École Normale Supérieure in 1929, where he studied under Émile Picard.

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   How did Chevalley influence mathematics?

   • Chevalley had a major influence on the development of several areas of mathematics. His papers of 1936 and 1941 where he introduced the concepts of adèle and idèle led to major advances in class field theory and also in algebraic geometry. He did pioneering work in the theory of local rings in 1943, developing ideas due to Krull.

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   What did Chevalley do in the 1950s?

   • In the 1950s, Chevalley led some Paris seminars of major importance: the Séminaire Cartan–Chevalley of the academic year 1955-6, with Henri Cartan and the Séminaire Chevalley of 1956-7 and 1957-8. These dealt with topics on algebraic groups and the foundations of algebraic geometry, as well as pure abstract algebra.

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9. www.ocf.berkeley.edu › ClaudeChevalleyNicholas Bourbaki, Collective Mathematician

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   Editor's Note: Claude Chevalley died in Paris on June 28, 1984. He was an extraordinary mathematician and an equally extraordinary man, with a different view of mathe- matics and life in general. The mathematical community will miss both Chevalley and his views. The following is a translation of an article and interview