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What was André Weil's profession?

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André Weil was a French mathematician who made important contributions to algebraic geometry, number theory, and the foundations of mathematics. He is best known for his work on the Weil conjectures, which he proposed in 1940 and which were later proved by Pierre Deligne. Weil was also a member of the Bourbaki group, a group of mathematicians who published a series of influential books on mathematics.
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