Jean Dieudonné

Jean Alexandre Eugène Dieudonné was a French mathematician, born in Lille on 1 July 1906 and died on 29 November 1992, notable for research in abstract algebra, algebraic geometry and functional analysis, for his close involvement with the Nicolas Bourbaki group and the Éléments de géométrie algébrique project of Alexander Grothendieck, and as a historian of mathematics. He was admitted to the École Normale Supérieure in 1924, where André Weil was a classmate, and in 1934 was one of the group of normaliens convened by Weil that became Bourbaki. His work on the classical groups and on formal groups, introducing what are now called Dieudonné modules, had a major effect on those fields. He held professorships at São Paulo, Nancy, Michigan and Northwestern, was a founding member of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, and founded the mathematics department at the University of Nice in 1964.