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François Bruhat

French mathematician & scholar (1929-2007) · France · On the map · Academics · Died at 78

François Georges René Bruhat was a French mathematician who worked on algebraic groups. The Bruhat order of a Weyl group, the Bruhat decomposition, and the Schwartz-Bruhat functions are named after him.

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2007Died17 July 20071989Émile Picard MedalAward1980Servant PrizeAward1959Cours PeccotAward1929Born8 April 1929

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Émile Picard Medal1989
Servant Prize1980
Cours Peccot1959
Officer of the Legion of Honour
Officer of the National Order of Merit
Commander of the French Order of Academic Palms

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Country
France
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1929 to 2007 · aged 78