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Jean-Pierre Serre

Jean-Pierre Serre

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Mathematics
France
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Mathematics

D-Index
70
Citations
34851
World Ranking
267
National Ranking
12

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mathematics in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mathematics in France Leader Award
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
  • 2003 - Abel Prize For playing a key role in shaping the modern form of many parts of mathematics, including topology, algebraic geometry and number theory.
  • 2000 - Wolf Prize in Mathematics for his many fundamental contributions to topology, algebraic geometry, algebra, and number theory and for his inspirational lectures and writing.
  • 1995 - Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition
  • 1979 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1978 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1976 - Academie des sciences, France
  • 1974 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 1960 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1954 - Fields Medal of International Mathematical Union (IMU) Achieved major results on the homotopy groups of spheres, especially in his use of the method of spectral sequences. Reformulated and extended some of the main results of complex variable theory in terms of sheaves.

Overview

Jean-Pierre Serre is affiliated with the Collège de France in France. Their research spans primarily the field of Mathematics, with contributions across several subfields including Geometry and Topology, Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, and Mathematical Physics. Their work also touches on History and Literature and Literary Theory.

Serre's main research topics cover a range of mathematical disciplines and include:

  • Finite Group Theory Research
  • Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory
  • Advanced Algebra and Geometry
  • Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics
  • Algebraic structures and combinatorial models
  • Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology
  • Advanced Topology and Set Theory

Among the frequent co-authors in their research collaborations are Francesco Noseda, Ilir Snopce, and Eva Bayer-Fluckiger.

Their publications have appeared in several venues, with a notable presence in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Tunisian Journal of Mathematics
  • Comptes Rendus Mathématique
  • L'Enseignement Mathématique
  • L'annuaire du Collège de France

Selected recent papers by Jean-Pierre Serre include:

  • "Groupes de Coxeter finis: involutions et cubes", 2022, published in L'Enseignement Mathématique
  • "Lettre de Jean-Pierre Serre à Joël Bellaïchedu 29 septembre 2013", 2025, published in Tunisian Journal of Mathematics
  • "Invariants cohomologiques mod 2 et invariants de Witt des groupes alternés", 2024, published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Algèbre et géométrie (1956-1994)", 2020, published in L'annuaire du Collège de France
  • "The Life and Work of John Tate", 2020, published in Resonance

Jean-Pierre Serre has received multiple awards throughout their career, including:

  • Fields Medal of International Mathematical Union (IMU) in 1954 for work on homotopy groups of spheres and complex variable theory reformulations
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1960
  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, 1974
  • Academie des sciences, France, 1976
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1978
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1979
  • Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition, 1995
  • Wolf Prize in Mathematics, 2000, for contributions to topology, algebraic geometry, algebra, and number theory
  • Abel Prize, 2003, recognizing key roles in shaping modern topology, algebraic geometry, and number theory
  • Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2013

Best Publications

  • Linear Representations of Finite Groups

    Jean-Pierre Serre

  • A Course in Arithmetic

    Jean Pierre Serre

  • Propriétés galoisiennes des points d'ordre fini des courbes elliptiques

    Jean-Pierre Serre

  • Lie Algebras and Lie Groups

    Jean-Pierre Serre

  • Good reduction of abelian varieties

    Jean-Pierre Serre;John Tate

  • Abelian l̳-adic representations and elliptic curves

    Jean Pierre Serre

  • Faisceaux algébriques cohérents

    Jean Pierre Serre

  • Homologie Singuliere Des Espaces Fibres

    Jean-Pierre Serre

  • Géométrie algébrique et géométrie analytique

    Jean-Pierre Serre

  • Solution of the congruence subgroup problem for $SL_n (n \ge 3)$ and $Sp_{2n} (n \ge 2)$

    Hyman Bass;John Milnor;Jean-Pierre Serre

  • Lectures on the Mordell-Weil theorem

    Jean-Pierre Serre

  • Quelques applications du théorème de densité de Chebotarev

    Jean-Pierre Serre

  • Cohomologie des groupes discrets

    Jean-Pierre Serre

  • Groupes algébriques et corps de classes

    Jean Pierre Serre

  • Topics in Galois Theory

    Jean Pierre Serre

  • Groupes d'homotopie et classes des groupes abeliens

    Jean-Pierre Serre

  • Cohomology of group extensions

    G. Hochschild;J.-P. Serre

  • Représentations linéaires des groupes finis

    Jean Pierre Serre

  • Algèbre locale : multiplicités

    Jean Pierre Serre;Peter Gabriel

  • Cours d'arithmétique

    Jean Pierre Serre

  • Algebraic Groups and Class Fields

    Jean Pierre Serre

Frequent Co-Authors

Armand Borel
Armand Borel Institute for Advanced Study
Pierre Deligne
Pierre Deligne Institute for Advanced Study
John Tate
John Tate Harvard University
Don Zagier
Don Zagier Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
Hyman Bass
Hyman Bass University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Friedrich Hirzebruch
Friedrich Hirzebruch Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
Alexandre Grothendieck
Alexandre Grothendieck Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
Kristin E. Lauter
Kristin E. Lauter Microsoft (United States)
Shiing-Shen Chern
Shiing-Shen Chern University of California, Berkeley
Jacques Tits
Jacques Tits Collège de France

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