François Georges René Bruhat (; 8 April 1929 – 17 July 2007) was a
French mathematician
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who worked on
algebraic groups. The
Bruhat order of a
Weyl group
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, the
Bruhat decomposition, and the
Schwartz–Bruhat functions are named after him.
He was the son of
physicist
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(and associate director of the
École Normale Supérieure
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during the
occupation)
Georges Bruhat, and brother of physicist
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat.
See also
*
Hadamard space
References
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1929 births
2007 deaths
École Normale Supérieure alumni
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
Nicolas Bourbaki
20th-century French mathematicians
21st-century French mathematicians
Bruhat family
Scientists from Paris
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