Mathematician:Armand Borel

Mathematician

Swiss mathematician who worked in algebraic topology and the theory of Lie groups.

One of the creators of the contemporary theory of linear algebraic groups.

Nationality

Swiss

History

• Born: 21 May 1923 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
• Died: 11 August 2003 in Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Theorems and Definitions

• Borel Cohomology
• Borel Conjecture
• Borel Construction
• Borel Subgroup
• Borel Subalgebra

• Borel-de Siebenthal Theory (with Jean de Siebenthal)
• Borel-Moore Homology (with John Coleman Moore)
• Baily-Borel Compactification (with Walter Lewis Baily Jr.)

• Borel Fixed-Point Theorem
• Borel's Theorem

• Borel-Bott-Weil Theorem (with André Abraham Weil and Raoul Bott) (also known as Borel-Weil-Bott Theorem)

Results named for Armand Borel can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Armand Borel can be found here.

Publications

• 1960: Seminar on transformation groups

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Armand Borel": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive