Pierre Gabriel

{{Short description|French mathematician (1933–2015)}}

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| name = Pierre Gabriel

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1933|08|01|df=y}}

| birth_place = Bitche, Lorraine, France

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2015|11|24|1933|08|01|df=y}}

| death_place = St. Gallen

| nationality = French

| fields = Mathematics

| workplaces = University of Zurich{{br}}University of Bonn{{br}}University of Strasbourg

| alma_mater = University of Paris

| thesis_title = Des catégories abéliennes

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| thesis_year = 1961

| doctoral_advisor = Alexander Grothendieck

| doctoral_students = Bernhard Keller
Christine Riedtmann

| known_for = Gabriel's theorem
Gabriel quotient
Gabriel–Zisman localization
Gabriel–Rosenberg reconstruction theorem
Gabriel–Popescu embedding theorem

| awards = Prix Francoeur (1972)
ICM Plenary Speaker (1986)

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Pierre Gabriel (1 August 1933{{cite web |url= http://www.pierre-peter-gabriel-mathematics.ch |title=Pierre Peter Gabriel Mathematics |access-date=21 December 2020}} – 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.republicain-lorrain.fr/edition-de-sarreguemines-bitche/2015/11/29/deces-de-pierre-gabriel-militant-du-bilinguisme|title=Edition de Sarreguemines Bitche - Décès de Pierre Gabriel militant du bilinguisme|work=republicain-lorrain.fr}}

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