Pierre Cartier (born in Sedan, France in 1932) is a mathematician - more specifically, a category theorist. This article is about the type of car. ... The French Republic or France (French: République française or France) is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... A mathematician is a person whose area of study and research is mathematics. ... Category theory is a mathematical theory that deals in an abstract way with mathematical structures and relationships between them. ...
He studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris under Henri Cartan. Since his 1958thesis on algebraic geometry he has worked in a number of fields. He is known for the introduction of the Cartier operator in algebraic geometry in characteristic p, and for work on duality of abelian varieties and on formal groups. He is the eponym of the Cartier divisor. The quadrangle at the main ENS building on rue dUlm is known as the Cour aux Ernests – the Ernests being the goldfish in the pond. ... Henri Cartan (born July 8, 1904) is a son of Elie Cartan, and is, as his father was, a distinguished and influential mathematician. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article is about the thesis in dialectics and academia. ... Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics which, as the name suggests, combines abstract algebra, especially commutative algebra, with geometry. ... For the purposes of algebraic geometry over the complex numbers, an abelian variety is a complex torus (a torus of real dimension 2n that is a complex manifold) that is also a projective algebraic variety of dimension n, i. ... In mathematics, a formal group law is (roughly speaking) the formal power series analogue of a Lie group. ...
From 1961 to 1971 he was at Strasbourg. Since 1971 he has been a professor at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques. He was awarded in 1979 the Ampere Prize of the French Academy of Sciences. 1961 (As MAD Magazine pointed out on its first cover for the year) was the first upside-down year - i. ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... City motto: – City proper ( commune) Région Alsace Département Bas-Rhin (67) Mayor Fabienne Keller ( UMP) (since 2001) Area 78. ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... IHÉS main building The Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (I.H.É.S.) is a French institute supporting advanced research in mathematics and theoretical physics. ... 1979 is a common year starting on Monday. ... The French Academy of Sciences (Académie des sciences) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research. ...