François Bruhat

François Georges René Bruhat ( born April 8, 1929 in Paris, † 17 July 2007) was a French mathematician who has been dealing with Lie groups and algebraic groups.

Life

Bruhat attended the Lycée Henri IV and the Lycee Saint -Louis in Paris and then studied from 1948 at the École supérieure normal, where his father worked as Georges Bruhat Directeur Adjoint. 1952 to 1955 he worked for the CNRS. His doctoral thesis was induced representations of Lie groups to which he dedicated a series of works in the 1950s and in which he applied the developed by Laurent Schwartz theory of distributions. He also studied with Henri Cartan real analytic manifolds with singularities. In 1955 he was Maître de conférences in Nancy, where he later became professor of mathematics. In 1961 he became a professor in Paris ( at the Faculté des sciences ) and in 1970 at the University of Paris VII, where he remained until 1989. He was one of the founding members of the University, for their interdisciplinary approach he entered, and from 1976 to 1981 Vice- President of the University.

With Jacques Tits he developed from 1965, the theory of simple algebraic groups over local fields. In 1972, their work (of book - length) Groupes réductifs sur un corps local ( Publications Mathematiques de IHES 1972). With tits he created the theory of buildings. In 1956 he introduced the Bruhat decomposition.

Bruhat was a member of Bourbaki.

He was a member of the French Academy of Sciences, Officer of the Legion of Honour and of the Ordre des Palmes Kommendeur Académiques. In 1970 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice ( Groupes algébriques semi- simple sur un corps local).

He is the brother of Yvonne Choquet - Bruhat.

Writings

• Lectures on Lie groups and locally compact Representations of groups. 1958 1968
• Algebres de Lie et groupes de Lie. 1959 ( Lectures in Recife )
• Lectures on some aspects of- adic analysis, 1963