François Bruhat

Mathematician, Academic

1929 – 2007

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Who was François Bruhat?

François Georges René Bruhat was a French mathematician who worked on algebraic groups. The Bruhat order of a Weyl group, the Bruhat decomposition, and the Schwartz–Bruhat functions are named after him.

He was the son of physicist Georges Bruhat, and brother of physicist Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat.

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Born
Apr 8, 1929
Paris
Nationality
  • France
Profession
Education
  • École Normale Supérieure
Died
Jul 17, 2007

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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