1909-1984 Chevalley was born in Johannesberg, Transvaal, South Africa, in 1909, the son of Abel and Marguerite Chevalley—authors of the Oxford Concise French Dictionary. Chevalley had an unusual education in that he graduated from the Ecole...

Claude Chevalley (11 February 1909, Johannesburg, South Africa - 28 June 1984, Paris) was a French mathematician who made important contributions to number theory, algebraic geometry, class field theory, finite group theory, and the theory of algebraic...

The scene was dramatic and the star knew it. The evening before, in a campaign debate between Ronald Reagan and his Democratic opponent, Walter Mondale, Reagan had stumbled over his words and appeared confused. Democrats exulted, none more so than the patriarch who slowly...

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