André Néron, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

André Néron

French mathematician

Date of Birth: 30-Nov-1922

Place of Birth: La Clayette, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Date of Death: 06-Apr-1985

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

André Néron (November 30, 1922, La Clayette, France – April 6, 1985, Paris, France) was a French mathematician at the Université de Poitiers who worked on elliptic curves and abelian varieties.
He discovered the Néron minimal model of an elliptic curve or abelian variety, the Néron differential, the Néron–Severi group, the Néron–Ogg–Shafarevich criterion, the local height and Néron–Tate height of rational points on an abelian variety over a discrete valuation ring or Dedekind domain, and classified the possible fibers of an elliptic fibration.