Albert J. Crumeyrolle (1919–1992) was a
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mathematician
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and
professor
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of mathematics at the
Paul Sabatier University
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, known for his contributions to
spinor
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structures and
Clifford algebra
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.
Work
Crumeyrolle was a student of
André Lichnerowicz
André Lichnerowicz (January 21, 1915, Bourbon-l'Archambault – December 11, 1998, Paris) was a noted French differential geometer and mathematical physicist of Polish descent. He is considered the founder of modern Poisson geometry.
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under whose supervision he completed a thesis in 1961.
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His first important paper after completing his doctorate addressed spinor structures using methods of Clifford algebras developed by
Claude Chevalley
Claude Chevalley (; 11 February 1909 – 28 June 1984) was a French mathematician who made important contributions to number theory, algebraic geometry, class field theory, finite group theory and the theory of algebraic groups. He was a foun ...
.
[Artibano Micali: ''Albert Crumeyrolle: la démarche algébrique d'un géomètre''. In: Pertti Lounesto, Rafał Abłamowicz (ed.): ''Clifford Algebras and Spinor Structures: A Special Volume Dedicated to the Memory of Albert Crumeyrolle (1919--1992)'', Springer Netherlands, 1995, , p. ix–xiv (in French language)]
Crumeyrolle is known for his major contributions to theories of Clifford algebras and spinor structures. In 1975 he laid the foundations for
symplectic Clifford algebra
In abstract algebra, the Weyl algebra is the ring of differential operators with polynomial coefficients (in one variable), namely expressions of the form
: f_m(X) \partial_X^m + f_(X) \partial_X^ + \cdots + f_1(X) \partial_X + f_0(X).
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and the symplectic
spinor
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. An earlier publication by two other authors, Nouazé and Revoy, had appeared three years before in which Weyl algebras were treated from a Cliffordian point of view. Crumeyrolle however drew more attention to the topic, and, as emphasized by Jacques Helmstetter, he contributed original ideas of his own. His work on symplectic Clifford algebras however came under serious critique on mathematical grounds.
The mathematician Artibano Micali recalled Crumeyrolle stating that periodicity of Clifford algebras should play a similar role for elementary particle physics as the periodic classification of elements by
Dmitri Mendeleev
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has played for the
periodic table
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of elements.
Crumeyrolle taught in Iran in 1966, in several Europe countries and, in 1973, at
Stanford University summer school.
Publications
Books
* ''Orthogonal and symplectic Clifford algebras: Spinor Structures'', 1990
* Albert Crumeyrolle & J. Grifone: ''Symplectic geometry'', Pitman Advanced Publishing Program, 1983
* ''Algèbres de Clifford et spineurs'', 1974
* ''Bases géométriques de la topologie algébrique'', 1970
* ''Compléments d'algèbre moderne'', 1969
* ''Notions fondamentales d'algèbre moderne'', 1967
Further reading
* Rafał Abłamowicz, Pertti Lounesto (eds.): ''Clifford algebras and spinor structures: a special volume dedicated to the memory of Albert Crumeyrolle (1919–1992)'', Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995,
* Z. Ozievicz, Cz. Sitarczyk: ''Parallel treatment of Riemannian and symplectic Clifford algebras''. In: A. Micali, R. Boudet, J. Helmstetter (eds.): ''Clifford Algebras and their Applications in Mathematical Physics: Workshop Proceedings: 2nd (Fundamental Theories of Physics)'', Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992,
p. 83��96
References
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1919 births
1992 deaths
20th-century French mathematicians