Jean-Pierre Serre

Awards & Achievements

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.