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Jean-Pierre Albert Achille Serre Quick Info Born 15 September 1926 Bages, Pyrénées Orientales, France Summary Jean-Pierre Serre is a French mathematician who has made important contributions to algebraic topology, algebraic geometry, and algebraic number theory. View nine larger pictures Biography Jean-Pierre Serre's parents, Jean Serre and Adèle Diet, were both pharmacists. His mother Adèle had been a pharmacy student at the University of Montpellier and she took a calculus course (just for fun, she said, since she liked mathematics).
- ▪Jean-Pierre Albert Achille Serre Quick Info Born 15 September 1926 Bages, Pyrénées Orientales, France Summary Jean-Pierre Serre is a French mathematician who has made important contributions to algebraic topology, algebraic geometry, and al
- ▪View nine larger pictures Biography Jean-Pierre Serre's parents, Jean Serre and Adèle Diet, were both pharmacists.
- ▪His mother Adèle had been a pharmacy student at the University of Montpellier and she took a calculus course (just for fun, she said, since she liked mathematics).
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| Original publisher | Maths History |
| Canonical URL | https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Serre/ |
| Publication time | Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:57:18 +0000 |
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Jean-Pierre Albert Achille Serre Quick Info Born 15 September 1926 Bages, Pyrénées Orientales, France Summary Jean-Pierre Serre is a French mathematician who has made important contributions to algebraic topology, algebraic geometry, and algebraic number theory. He was a member of Bourbaki. View nine larger pictures Biography Jean-Pierre Serre's parents, Jean Serre and Adèle Diet, were both pharmacists. His mother Adèle had been a pharmacy student at the University of Montpellier and she took a calculus course (just for fun, she said, since she liked mathematics). In 1932 Jean-Pierre began his primary school education at the École de Vauvert. It was at the age of seven or eight that he began to enjoy doing mathematics.
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