Weil, André — Weil (vā), André. 1906 1998. French mathematician who influenced the development of modern number theory and algebraic geometry. * * * ▪ 1999 French mathematician (b. May 6, 1906, Paris, France d. Aug. 6, 1998, Princeton, N.J.), greatly… … Universalium
WEIL, JIŘI — (1900–1959), Czech writer, journalist, and translator. Born in Praskolesy, Bohemia, Weil completed his studies of Slavonic philology and comparative literary history at Charles University in Prague in 1928. As a student, he became a member of the … Encyclopedia of Judaism
WEIL, ANDRÉ — (1906–1998), U.S. mathematician. Born in Paris, Weil was appointed professor at the Aligarh Muslim University in India at the age of 24. He returned to Europe to join the faculty of science at the University of Strasbourg in 1933. He was a… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Weil, Gotshal & Manges — Infobox Law Firm firm name = Weil, Gotshal Manges firm headquarters = num offices = 20 num attorneys = 1,300 practice areas = International Arbitration, Capital Markets, Finance, and Mergers Acquisitions revenue = profit $1.7 billion (2007) date… … Wikipedia
Weil–Châtelet group — In mathematics, particularly in arithmetic geometry, the Weil Châtelet group of an abelian variety A defined over a field K is the abelian group of principal homogeneous spaces for A , defined over K . It is named for André Weil, who introduced… … Wikipedia
Weil conjecture on Tamagawa numbers — In mathematics, the Weil conjecture on Tamagawa numbers was formulated by André Weil in the late 1950s and proved in 1989. It states that the Tamagawa number tau;( G ), where G is any connected and simply connected semisimple algebraic group G ,… … Wikipedia
Weil conjectures — In mathematics, the Weil conjectures, which had become theorems by 1974, were some highly influential proposals from the late 1940s by André Weil on the generating functions (known as local zeta functions) derived from counting the number of… … Wikipedia
Weil restriction — In mathematics, restriction of scalars (also known as Weil restriction ) is a functor which, for any finite extension of fields L/k and any algebraic variety X over L , produces another variety Res L / k X , defined over k . It is useful for… … Wikipedia
Weil cohomology theory — In algebraic geometry, a subfield of mathematics, a Weil cohomology or Weil cohomology theory is a cohomology satisfying certain axioms concerning the interplay of algebraic cycles and cohomology groups. The name is in honour of André Weil. Weil… … Wikipedia
Group extension — In mathematics, a group extension is a general means of describing a group in terms of a particular normal subgroup and quotient group. If Q and N are two groups, then G is an extension of Q by N if there is a short exact sequence:1 ightarrow N… … Wikipedia