François Georges René Bruhat (; 8 April 1929 – 17 July 2007) was a French

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

who worked on algebraic groups. The Bruhat order of a

Weyl group In mathematics, in particular the theory of Lie algebras, the Weyl group (named after Hermann Weyl) of a root system Φ is a subgroup of the isometry group of that root system. Specifically, it is the subgroup which is generated by reflections t ...

, the Bruhat decomposition, and the Schwartz–Bruhat functions are named after him. He was the son of

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(and associate director of the

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during the occupation) Georges Bruhat, and brother of physicist Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat.

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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 {{France-mathematician-stub

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