François Georges René Bruhat (; 8 April 1929 – 17 July 2007) was a
French mathematician
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History
On ...
who worked on
algebraic groups
In mathematics, an algebraic group is an algebraic variety endowed with a group structure which is compatible with its structure as an algebraic variety. Thus the study of algebraic groups belongs both to algebraic geometry and group theory.
M ...
. The
Bruhat order In mathematics, the Bruhat order (also called strong order or strong Bruhat order or Chevalley order or Bruhat–Chevalley order or Chevalley–Bruhat order) is a partial order on the elements of a Coxeter group, that corresponds to the inclusion or ...
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 th ...
, the
Bruhat decomposition In mathematics, the Bruhat decomposition (introduced by François Bruhat for classical groups and by Claude Chevalley in general) ''G'' = ''BWB'' of certain algebraic groups ''G'' into cells can be regarded as a general expression of the principle ...
, and the
Schwartz–Bruhat function In mathematics, a Schwartz–Bruhat function, named after Laurent Schwartz and François Bruhat, is a complex valued function on a locally compact abelian group, such as the adeles, that generalizes a Schwartz function on a real vector space. A t ...
s are named after him.
He was the son of physicist (and associate director of the
École Normale Supérieure
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during the
occupation
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Georges Bruhat
Georges Bruhat (21 December 18871 January 1945In the dedication by Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat: The date is given as December 31, 1944 in .) was a French physicist.
Life and academic career
Bruhat studied physics from 1906 until 1909 at the Écol ...
, and brother of physicist
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (; born 29 December 1923) is a French mathematician and physicist. She has made seminal contributions to the study of General relativity, Einstein's general theory of relativity, by showing that the Einstein field equations, ...
.
See also
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Hadamard space
In geometry, an Hadamard space, named after Jacques Hadamard, is a non-linear generalization of a Hilbert space. In the literature they are also equivalently defined as complete CAT(0) spaces.
A Hadamard space is defined to be a nonempty complete ...
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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
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