Pierre Gabriel (1 August 1933 – 24 November 2015), also known as Peter Gabriel, was a French mathematician at the University of Strasbourg (1962–1970), University of Bonn (1970–1974) and University of Zürich (1974–1998) who worked on category theory, algebraic groups, and representation theory of algebras. He was elected a correspondent member of the French Academy of Sciences in November 1986.

His most famous result is Gabriel's theorem that provides a classification of all quivers of finite type.

Pierre Gabriel

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1933 births

2015 deaths

20th-century French mathematicians

21st-century French mathematicians

Algebraists

University of Paris alumni

Academic staff of the University of Zurich

Members of the French Academy of Sciences

People from Bitche

French expatriates in Germany

French expatriates in Switzerland

Pierre Gabriel