MATHEMATICIAN

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. In 1924 he was admitted to the École Normale Supérieure, where André Weil was a classmate. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Dieudonné is the 405th most popular mathematician (down from 347th in 2019), the 2,621st most popular biography from France (down from 2,469th in 2019) and the 66th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jean Dieudonné ranks 405 out of 1,004. Before him are Bhāskara I, Rolf Nevanlinna, Peter Barlow, Anders Johan Lexell, Sal Khan, and Karl Menger. After him are Christian Kramp, Johann Benedict Listing, Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi, Edmund Gunter, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, and Gilles de Roberval.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Jean Dieudonné ranks 127. Before him are Philippe Halsman, Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, Musa Cälil, Franz Waxman, Hamazasp Babadzhanian, and Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse. After him are Tekla Juniewicz, Mary Astor, Alexander Gode, Ladislao Vajda, Berthold, Margrave of Baden, and Anton Karas. Among people deceased in 1992, Jean Dieudonné ranks 102. Before him are Giorgio Perlasca, Nie Rongzhen, Seichō Matsumoto, Ajahn Chah, Néstor Almendros, and Wang Hongwen. After him are Allen Newell, Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Fritz Leiber, Alex Haley, Tevfik Esenç, and Jim Garrison.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Dieudonné ranks 2,621 out of 6,770. Before him are Hervé Bazin (1911), Bathilde d'Orléans (1750), Yvonne de Gaulle (1900), Charles, Prince of Soubise (1715), Henri Meilhac (1831), and Blanche of Artois (1248). After him are Christian Kramp (1760), Alexandre Exquemelin (1646), Constance, Duchess of Brittany (1161), Antoine Pesne (1683), Petrus Comestor (1100), and Paul Féval, père (1816).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Jean Dieudonné ranks 66. Before him are Joseph Diez Gergonne (1771), Paul Émile Appell (1855), Antoine Gombaud (1607), Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (1581), Guillaume Postel (1510), and Philippe de La Hire (1640). After him are Christian Kramp (1760), Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (1786), Gilles de Roberval (1602), Pierre Raymond de Montmort (1678), Jacques Ozanam (1640), and Pierre Alphonse Laurent (1813).

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