biography
| name: |
Dieudonné, Jean Alexandre
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pronunciation:
[djoedonay]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1906– )
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| biography:
| Mathematician, born in Lille, N France. He studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, and held chairs in Rennes, Nancy, Chicago, the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, and Nice. The leading French mathematician of his generation, and a founder of the Bourbaki group, his Eléments d'analyse (1960–82) in nine volumes carries on the French tradition of the definitive treatise on analysis. |
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