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Jean-Pierre Serre

French mathematicianborn 1926

Wikidata names Henri Cartan as doctoral advisor and lists 4 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 7 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Henri Cartan

Students on Wikidata4

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Pierre Gabriel
born 1933
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Jean-Marc Fontaine
born 1944
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Michel Broué
born 1946
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John Paul Labute

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The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

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stated by WikidataHenri Cartan
2 steps up
stated by WikidataPaul Montel
3 steps up
stated by WikidataHenri Lebesguestated by WikidataÉmile Borel
4 steps up
stated by WikidataJean Gaston Darboux

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 78 people: 78 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

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Homologie Singuliere Des Espaces Fibres
doctoral thesis, stated by Wikidata

Education and career7

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1932 to 1937
Escola Primària Jean Macé, Vauverd
studied
1937 to 1945
Lycée Alphonse Daudet
studied
1945 to 1948
École Normale Supérieure
studied
1948 to 1954
National Center for Scientific Research
worked
until 1951
University of Paris
studied
1954 to 1956
Nancy-Université
worked
1956 to 1994
Collège de France
worked

At a glance

known as: mathematician, university teacher, researcher
fields: algebraic geometry, algebra, number theory, topology, mathematics, algebraic topology, algebraic number theory
awards: Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, 2012, Fields medal, 1954, CNRS Gold medal, 1987, Abel Prize, 2003, Émile Picard Medal, 1971, Balzan Prize, 1985, Gaston-Julia Award, 1970, Wolf Prize in Mathematics, 2000, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, 2003, Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit, 2008, Concours général, 1944, honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense, 2006, honorary doctor of the Tsinghua University, 2017, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, 1974, Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition, 1995, Cours Peccot, 1954, Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2013, honorary doctorate of Barcelona University, 2004, Girbal-Baral Foundation Award, 1952
member of: Royal Society of London, French Academy of Sciences, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, National Academy of Sciences, from 1979, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academy of Sciences of Turin, from 2010, American Mathematical Society, from 2012
notable works: Serre spectral sequence, Lyndon–Hochschild–Serre spectral sequence, Serre–Tate theorem, Serre–Swan theorem, Serre's theorem on a semisimple Lie algebra, Serre's theorem on affineness, Serre's modularity conjecture, Bass–Serre theory, Serre's conjecture II, Serre's multiplicity conjectures, Serre's inequality on height
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identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaJean-Pierre Serre
stated by WikidataWikidataQ212063
stated by WikidataVIAF66473477
stated by WikidataGND142283126
stated by WikidataIdRef027133222
stated by WikidataISNI0000000121371909

papers

stated by WikidataDBLP73/9527
stated by WikidataScopus7005640078

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project34222

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@misc{academicancestry_Q212063,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Jean-Pierre Serre: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q212063},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Jean-Pierre Serre: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q212063