Jean Leray
Jean Leray , born with Chantenay the November 7th 1906 and died in La Baule the November 10th 1998, is a Mathématicien French which worked at the same time on the partial derivative equations and on the algebraic Topologie.
It passes its youth to Nantes and Rennes, then made its studies with the National university and becomes professor with Nancy in 1936. It carries out its principal work in Topologie between 1940 and 1945 whereas he is prisoner of war in Austria. It organizes in the camp with Edelbach a university for the prisoners. It introduces the radically new and very fertile ideas of spectral Suite and Faisceau. Its ideas are taken up by others to become important tools in homological algebra.
He is professor with the Collège de France, where he occupies the pulpit of theory of the differential equations and functional of 1947 with 1978. He is elected member of the Academy of Science in 1953 and thereafter in many foreign academies, of which Royal Society in 1983. He receives many distinctions, of which the Prix Wolf in 1979 and the Prix John Von Neumann in 1962.
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