Armand Borel

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Armand Borel was a Swiss mathematician renowned for his foundational work in algebraic groups, Lie groups, and arithmetic groups, and for his influential role in 20th-century modern mathematics.

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instanceOf human
mathematician
awardReceived Balzan Prize
Cole Prize in Algebra
Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement
countryOfBirth Switzerland
countryOfCitizenship Switzerland
dateOfBirth 1923-05-21
dateOfDeath 2003-08-11
doctoralAdvisor Henri Cartan
educatedAt ETH Zurich
University of Paris
employer Institute for Advanced Study
era 20th-century mathematics
familyName Borel
fieldOfWork Lie groups
linked to: Lie group

algebraic geometry
algebraic groups
algebraic topology
arithmetic groups
mathematics
representation theory
gender male
givenName Armand
knownFor Borel density theorem
Borel fixed-point theorem
Borel regulator
Borel subgroup
Borel–Bott–Weil theorem
Borel–Moore homology
Borel–Serre compactification
Borel–Weil theorem
languageOfWorkOrName English
French
memberOf Academia Europaea
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Bourbaki
linked to: Nicolas Bourbaki

National Academy of Sciences
name Armand Borel
notableStudent Gopal Prasad
Nolan Wallach
Pierre Deligne
notableWork Intersection Cohomology
Linear Algebraic Groups
Semisimple Lie Groups and Riemannian Symmetric Spaces
placeOfBirth La Chaux-de-Fonds
placeOfDeath Princeton, New Jersey
workLocation Princeton, New Jersey

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Borel–Weil theorem namedAfter Armand Borel
Borel subalgebras namedAfter Armand Borel
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