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André Weil

French mathematician1906 to 1998

Wikidata names Charles Émile Picard and Jacques Hadamard as doctoral advisors and lists 11 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Charles Émile Picard
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Jacques Hadamard

Students on Wikidata11

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Arnold S. Shapiro
born 1921
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Harley Flanders
born 1925
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William Alvin Howard
born 1926
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Peter Swinnerton-Dyer
born 1927
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William Lind Hoyt
born 1928
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Alexandre Rodrigues
born 1930
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Pierre Cartier
born 1932
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David Hertzig
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Frank Douglas Quigley
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Martin Segal
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Norman Tyson Hamilton

Taught3

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Elza Furtado Gomide
born 1925
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Teruhisa Matsusaka
born 1926
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Carlos Benjamin de Lyra
born 1927

The line above and below4 steps

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.

1 step up
stated by WikidataCharles Émile Picardstated by WikidataJacques Hadamard
2 steps up
stated by WikidataJean Gaston Darbouxstated by WikidataJules Tannery
3 steps up
stated by WikidataCharles Hermitestated by WikidataMichel Chasles
4 steps up
stated by WikidataEugène Charles Catalanstated by WikidataSiméon Denis Poisson

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 162 people: 162 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

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L’arithmétique sur les courbes algébriques
doctoral thesis, stated by Wikidata

Education and career12

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.

1912 to 1914
Lycée Montaigne
studied
1918 to 1922
Lycée Saint-Louis
studied
1922 to 1925
École Normale Supérieure
studied
1927 to 1927
University of Göttingen
studied
until 1928
Science Faculty of Paris
studied
1930 to 1932
Aligarh Muslim University
worked
1932 to 1939
University of Strasbourg
worked
1941 to 1943
Haverford College
worked
1943 to 1945
Lehigh University
worked
1945 to 1947
University of São Paulo
worked
1947 to 1958
University of Chicago
worked
1958 to 1976
Institute for Advanced Study
worked

At a glance

known as: mathematician, historian of mathematics, university teacher
fields: algebraic geometry, number theory, mathematics
awards: Guggenheim Fellowship, 1944, Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences, 1994, Wolf Prize in Mathematics, 1979, Leroy P. Steele Prize, 1980, Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science, 1980, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, 1966, Prix Francoeur, 1935, Cours Peccot, 1932
member of: Royal Society of London, French Academy of Sciences, Nicolas Bourbaki, National Academy of Sciences, from 1977, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, International Academy of the History of Science, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, American Philosophical Society, from 1995
notable works: Borel–Weil theorem, De Rham–Weil theorem, Mordell–Weil theorem, Oka–Weil theorem, Shafarevich–Weil theorem, Borel–Weil–Bott theorem, Weil conjectures, Siegel–Weil formula, Bergman–Weil formula, Chern–Weil theory, Chern–Weil homomorphism, Hasse–Weil zeta function, Weil algebra, Weil group, Mordell-Weil group, Weil–Châtelet group, Weil–Brezin map, Weil's criterion, Weil divisor, Weil–Petersson metric, Weil reciprocity law, Weil restriction
Wikipedia: in 47 languages

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identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaAndré Weil
stated by WikidataWikidataQ323232
stated by WikidataVIAF108578091
stated by WikidataGND118980963
stated by WikidataIdRef031616348
stated by WikidataISNI0000000122839753

papers

stated by WikidataScopus16485416400

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project6385

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  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{André Weil: advisors and students}},
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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). André Weil: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q323232