Jean-Pierre Serre

Jean-Pierre Serre
Jean-Pierre Serre
	Serre in 2003
Born	15 September 1926; Bages, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
Alma mater	École Normale Supérieure; University of Paris;
Known for	(List of things named after Jean-Pierre Serre)
Awards	Fields Medal (1954); ForMemRS (1974); Balzan Prize (1985); CNRS Gold medal (1987); Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition (1995); Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2000); Abel Prize (2003);
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Collège de France;
Thesis	Homologie singulière des espaces fibrés (1951)
Doctoral advisor	Henri Cartan
Doctoral students	Michel Broué; Jean-Marc Fontaine; Pierre Gabriel;

Jean-Pierre Serre (French: [sɛʁ]; born 15 September 1926) is a French mathematician who has made contributions to algebraic topology, algebraic geometry and algebraic number theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1954 and the inaugural Abel Prize in 2003.