Jean-Pierre Serre

Jean-Pierre Serre
Serre in 2003
Born	(1926-09-15) 15 September 1926 (age 97) Bages, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
Alma mater	École Normale Supérieure University of Paris
Known for	(List of things named after Jean-Pierre Serre)
Awards	Fields Medal (1954) ForMemRS (1974) Balzan Prize (1985) CNRS Gold medal (1987) Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition (1995) Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2000) Abel Prize (2003)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Collège de France
Thesis	Homologie singulière des espaces fibrés (1951)
Doctoral advisor	Henri Cartan
Doctoral students	Michel Broué Jean-Marc Fontaine Pierre Gabriel

Jean-Pierre Serre (French: [sɛʁ]; born 15 September 1926) is a French mathematician who has made contributions to algebraic topology, algebraic geometry and algebraic number theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1954, the Wolf Prize in 2000 and the inaugural Abel Prize in 2003.