Pierre Cartier | |
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Born | Pierre Émile Cartier 10 June 1932 |
Died | 17 August 2024 Marcoussis, France | (aged 92)
Education | Lycée Saint-Louis |
Alma mater | École normale supérieure University of Paris |
Known for | Cartier divisor Cartier duality Cartier isomorphism Cartier operator Cartier's theorem Cartier–Foata matrices Traces |
Awards | Prix Peccot (1960)[1] ICM Speaker (1970) Prize Ampère (1978) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Strasbourg Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques |
Doctoral advisor | Henri Cartan André Weil |
Doctoral students | Guy Henniart |
Pierre Émile Cartier (10 June 1932 – 17 August 2024) was a French mathematician. An associate of the Bourbaki group and at one time a colleague of Alexander Grothendieck, his interests have ranged over algebraic geometry, representation theory, mathematical physics, and category theory.