Andre Weil, Mathematics educator and researcher. Achievements include research of branches of number theory and algebraicgeometry; created theorem of mathematical conjecturecalled the Riemann hypothesis; Weil conjectures; unification of arithmetic, algebra, geometry and topology, research in the history of mathematics. Recipient Kyoto prize, 1994.
Education
Doctorate, U. Paris, 1928.
Career
Professor mathematics emeritus, Institute Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, since 1976.