Pierre Cartier (mathematician)

Pierre Cartier
Born
Pierre Émile Cartier

(1932-06-10) 10 June 1932 (age 92)
NationalityFrench
Alma materUniversity of Paris
Known forCartier divisor
Cartier duality
Cartier isomorphism
Cartier operator
Cartier's theorem
Cartier–Foata matrices
Traces
AwardsPrix Peccot (1960)[1]
ICM Speaker (1970)
Prize Ampère (1978)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Strasbourg
Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
Doctoral advisorHenri Cartan
André Weil
Doctoral studentsGuy Henniart

Pierre Émile Cartier (born 10 June 1932, died 17 August 2024[citation needed]) was a French mathematician. An associate of the Bourbaki group and at one time a colleague of Alexander Grothendieck, his interests have ranged over algebraic geometry, representation theory, mathematical physics, and category theory.

He studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris under Henri Cartan and André Weil.[2] Since his 1958 thesis on algebraic geometry he has worked in a number of fields. He is known for the introduction of the Cartier operator in algebraic geometry in characteristic p, and for work on duality of abelian varieties and on formal groups. He is the eponym of Cartier divisors and Cartier duality.

From 1961 to 1971 he was a professor at the University of Strasbourg. In 1970 he was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice.[3] He was awarded the 1978 Prize Ampère of the French Academy of Sciences.[4] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[5]

  1. ^ "Pierre Cartier". Institute for Advanced Study. 9 December 2019.
  2. ^ Pierre Cartier at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Cartier, Pierre (1970). "Groupes formels, fonctions automorphes et fonctions zeta des courbes elliptiques" (PDF). In: Actes des Congrés intern. Math. Vol. tome 2. pp. 291–299. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-07-06. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
  4. ^ "40 ans du Prix Ampère" (PDF). Académie des sciences. 18 October 2016.
  5. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-10.

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