Claude Chevalley [SEP] date of death
Claude Chevalley
Claude Chevalley (; 11 February 1909 – 28 June 1984) was a French mathematician who made important contributions to number theory, algebraic geometry, class field theory, finite group theory, and the theory of algebraic groups. He was a founding member of the Bourbaki group.
Life.
His father, Abel Chevalley, was a French diplomat who, jointly with his wife Marguerite Chevalley née Sabatier, wrote "The Concise Oxford French Dictionary". Chevalley graduated from the École Normale Supérieure in 1929, where he
theory that theory's consistency proof. Herbrand studied Gödel's essay and wrote an appendix to his own study explaining why Gödel's result did not contradict his own. In July of that year he was mountain-climbing in the French Alps with two friends when he fell to his death in the granite mountains of Massif des Écrins. "On the consistency of arithmetic" was published posthumously.
Quotation.
""Jacques Herbrand would have hated Bourbaki"" said French mathematician Claude Chevalley quoted in Michèle Chouchan, ""