André Weil
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[b. Paris, May 6, 1906, d. Princeton, New Jersey, August 6, 1998]
Weil was among the mathematicians who in 1939 began the Bourbaki series summarizing all known mathematics in a uniform symbolism. Early in World War II Weil, who was Jewish, escaped from occupied France and came to the United States (his sister, the philosopher Simone Weil, was a famous resistance fighter). He combined number theory with algebraic geometry in new ways, having a great influence not only on mathematics but also on particle physics.
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, André 1906-1998.French mathematician who influenced the development of modern number theory and algebraic geometry.
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