Jean-Pierre SERRE
born September 15, 1926, Bages, France
Collège de France
Achieved major results on the homotopy groups of spheres, especially in his use of the method of spectral sequences. Reformulated and exented some of the main results of complex variable theory in terms of sheaves.
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