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3 unusual facts about André Weil


Grothendieck topology

André Weil's famous Weil conjectures proposed that certain properties of equations with integral coefficients should be understood as geometric properties of the algebraic variety that they define.

Uniform space

Before André Weil gave the first explicit definition of a uniform structure in 1937, uniform concepts, like completeness, were discussed using metric spaces.

André Weil, Sur les espaces à structure uniforme et sur la topologie générale, Act.


American Journal of Mathematics

Other notable mathematicians who have served as editors or editorial associates of the journal include Oscar Zariski, Lars Ahlfors, Hermann Weyl, Wei-Liang Chow, S. S. Chern, André Weil, Harish-Chandra, Jean Dieudonné, Henri Cartan, Stephen Smale, Jun-Ichi Igusa, and Joseph A. Shalika.


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