François Bruhat
French mathematician & scholar
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| Intro | French mathematician & scholar | ||||
| Places | France | ||||
| was | Mathematician Professor Educator | ||||
| Work field | Academia Mathematics | ||||
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| Birth | 8 April 1929, Paris, France | ||||
| Death | 17 July 2007Paris, France (aged 78 years) | ||||
| Star sign | Aries | ||||
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François Georges René Bruhat ([bʁy.a]; 8 April 1929 – 17 July 2007) was a French mathematician who worked on algebraic groups. The Bruhat order of a Weyl group, the Bruhat decomposition, and the Schwartz–Bruhat functions are named after him.
He was the son of physicist (and associate director of the École Normale Supérieure during the occupation) Georges Bruhat, and brother of physicist Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat.