Pierre Cartier (mathematician)

Pierre Cartier
File:Pierre Cartier 2009.jpg
Born	(1932-06-10) 10 June 1932 Sedan, Ardennes
Nationality	France
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
Alma mater	University of Paris
Doctoral advisor	Henri Cartan André Weil
Doctoral students	François Digne Guy Henniart Marc Rosso
Known for	Cartier divisor
Notable awards	Ampere Prize (1979)

Pierre Emile Cartier (born 10 June 1932) is a mathematician. An associate of the Bourbaki group and at one time a colleague of Alexander Grothendieck, his interests have ranged over algebraic geometry, representation theory, mathematical physics, and category theory.

He studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris under Henri Cartan and André Weil. Since his 1958 thesis on algebraic geometry he has worked in a number of fields. He is known for the introduction of the Cartier operator in algebraic geometry in characteristic p, and for work on duality of abelian varieties and on formal groups. He is the eponym of the Cartier divisor.

From 1961 to 1971 he was at Strasbourg. He was awarded the Ampere Prize of the French Academy of Sciences in 1979. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

External links

• Cartier's website at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, with a photograph, CV, and list of publications
• Issue of Moscow Mathematical Journal dedicated to Pierre Cartier
• http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Cartier.html