Biography:Pierre Gabriel

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Short description: French mathematician (1933–2015)
Pierre Gabriel
Born(1933-08-01)1 August 1933
Bitche, Lorraine, France[1]
Died24 November 2015(2015-11-24) (aged 82)
NationalityFrench
Alma materUniversity of Paris
Known forGabriel's theorem
Gabriel quotient
Gabriel–Zisman localization
Gabriel–Rosenberg reconstruction theorem
Gabriel–Popescu embedding theorem
AwardsPrix Francoeur (1972)
ICM Plenary Speaker (1986)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Zurich
University of Bonn
University of Strasbourg
ThesisDes catégories abéliennes (1961)
Doctoral advisorAlexander Grothendieck
Doctoral studentsBernhard Keller
Christine Riedtmann

Pierre Gabriel (1 August 1933[1] – 24 November 2015), also known as Peter Gabriel, was a French mathematician at the University of Strasbourg (1962–1970), University of Bonn (1970–1974) and University of Zürich (1974–1998) who worked on category theory, algebraic groups, and representation theory of algebras. He was elected a correspondent member of the French Academy of Sciences in November 1986.[2]

His most famous result is Gabriel's theorem that provides a classification of all quivers of finite type.

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