Michel André (mathematician)
Michel André (born March 26, 1936 , † July 9, 2009 ) was a Swiss mathematician who dealt with non-commutative algebra and applications in topology .
Life
André studied at the ETH Zurich with a diploma in 1958 and received his doctorate in 1962 under Claude Chevalley at the Sorbonne (Cohomologie des algèbres différentielles où opère une algèbre de Lie). From 1971 he was a full professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne .
In 1967 he was one of the founders of the theory of non-Abelian derived functors (at the same time as Daniel Quillen and Jonathan Beck ). In 1970 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice (Homologie des algèbres commutatives).
He died in an accident while hiking in the mountains.
Fonts
- Homologie des algèbres commutatives, Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften 206, Springer 1974
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michel André in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
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| SURNAME | André, Michel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1936 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 9, 2009 |