Prix Francoeur (1937) Malaxa Prize (1938) Feltrinelli Prize (1971) John von Neumann Prize(1962) Wolf Prize (1979) Lomonosov Gold Medal (1988)
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematics
Institutions
University of Nancy University of Paris Collège de France
Doctoral advisor
Henri Villat
Doctoral students
Armand Borel István Fáry
Jean Leray (French:[ləʁɛ]; 7 November 1906 – 10 November 1998)[1] was a French mathematician, who worked on both partial differential equations and algebraic topology.
^Andler, M. (2006). "Jean Leray. 7 November 1906 -- 10 November 1998: Elected ForMemRS 1983". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 52: 137. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2006.0011.
JeanLeray (French: [ləʁɛ]; 7 November 1906 – 10 November 1998) was a French mathematician, who worked on both partial differential equations and algebraic...
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The Leray projection, named after JeanLeray, is a linear operator used in the theory of partial differential equations, specifically in the fields of...
In mathematics, the Leray spectral sequence was a pioneering example in homological algebra, introduced in 1946 by JeanLeray. It is usually seen nowadays...
Serre spectral sequence (sometimes Leray–Serre spectral sequence to acknowledge earlier work of JeanLeray in the Leray spectral sequence) is an important...
spectral sequences were introduced by JeanLeray at the prisoner-of-war camp Oflag XVII-A in Austria. From 1940 to 1945, Leray and other prisoners organized a...
a generalization of exact sequences, and since their introduction by JeanLeray (1946a, 1946b), they have become important computational tools, particularly...
a Leray cover(ing) is a cover of a topological space which allows for easy calculation of its cohomology. Such covers are named after JeanLeray. Sheaf...
he applied the Leray spectral sequence to the topology of Lie groups and their classifying spaces, under the influence of JeanLeray and Henri Cartan...
During this early period, Paul Dubreil, JeanLeray and Szolem Mandelbrojt joined and participated. Dubreil and Leray left the meetings before the following...
example, crucial in topological data analysis. The basic nerve theorem of JeanLeray says that, if any intersection of sets in N ( C ) {\displaystyle N(C)}...
Eilenberg give the Eilenberg–Steenrod axioms for (co-)homology. 1946 – JeanLeray introduces the Spectral sequence. 1947 – George Dantzig publishes the...
van Kampen Daniel Kan Hermann Künneth Ruth Lawrence Solomon Lefschetz JeanLeray Saunders Mac Lane Mark Mahowald J. Peter May Barry Mazur John Milnor John...
homology and cohomology theories did indeed satisfy their axioms. In 1946, JeanLeray defined sheaf cohomology. In 1948 Edwin Spanier, building on work of Alexander...
especially, Paris. In Paris he started a very successful collaboration with JeanLeray. Around 1935 Schauder obtained the position of a senior assistant in the...
a generalization of exact sequences, and since their introduction by JeanLeray (1946), they have become an important research tool, particularly in homotopy...
been introduced in algebraic geometry by Jean-Pierre Serre and others, after sheaves had been defined by JeanLeray. Grothendieck took them to a higher level...
arbitrary topological space. This was doubtless known to Eduard Čech and JeanLeray and explicitly appeared as a remark in a paper by André Weil; various...
conjecture, demonstrated by Grigori Perelman in 2003. JeanLeray (1946) These two Comptes Rendus notes of Leray from 1946 introduced the novel concepts of sheafs...
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