What is Jean-Pierre Serre?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Jean-Pierre Serre | image = Jean-Pierre Serre.jpg | caption = Jean-Pierre Serre at [[Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach|Oberwolfach]] in 2009 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1926|09|15}} | birth_place = [[Bages, Pyrénées-Orientales|Bages]], [[Pyrénées-Orientales]], [[France]] | nationality = [[France|French]] | field = [[Mathematics]] | work_institutions = {{plainlist| *[[Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique]] *[[Collège de France]]}} | alma_mater = {{plainlist| *[[École Normale Supérieure]] *[[University of Paris]]}} | doctoral_advisor = [[Henri Cartan]] | doctoral_students = {{plainlist| *[[Michel Broué]] *[[Jean-Marc Fontaine]]}} | prizes = {{plainlist| *[[Fields Medal]] (1954) *[[Balzan Prize]] (1985) *[[CNRS Gold medal]] (1987) *[[Steele Prize]] (1995) *[[Wolf Prize in Mathematics]] (2000) *[[Abel Prize]] (2003)}} }} '''Jean-Pierre Serre''' ({{IPA-fr|sɛʁ|lang}}; born 15 September 1926) is a [[French people|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 first [[Abel Prize]] in 2003. In 2012 he became a fellow of the [[American Mathematical Society]].<ref>[http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 2013-07-18.</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://www.college-de-france.fr/site/jean-pierre-serre/index.htm Jean-Pierre Serre, Collège de France, biography and publications.] * [http://www.academie-sciences.fr/membres/S/Serre_JP.htm Jean-Pierre Serre] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070611173119/http://www.academie-sciences.fr/membres/S/Serre_JP.htm |date=2007-06-11 }} at the [[French Academy of Sciences]], in French. * [http://www.ams.org/notices/200402/comm-serre.pdf Interview with Jean-Pierre Serre] in Notices of the American M