Colliot-Thélène, Jean Louis Les grands thèmes de François Châtelet. (The great themes of François Châtelet). (French) Zbl 0678.01008 Enseign. Math., II. Sér. 34, No. 3-4, 387-405 (1988). The author describes mathematical contribution of François Châtelet (1912-1987) which belongs mainly to the area of diophantine geometry: Severi-Brauer varieties, curves of genus 1, cubic surfaces, and torsion points in some types of curves. There is a list of 43 Châtelet’s papers and of 45 other quoted papers. Reviewer: R.Duda Cited in 3 Documents MSC: 01A70 Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies 01A60 History of mathematics in the 20th century 14M20 Rational and unirational varieties Keywords:Severi-Brauer varieties; field; cohomology; curve; torsion point Biographic References: Châtelet, F. PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{J. L. Colliot-Thélène}, Enseign. Math. (2) 34, No. 3--4, 387--405 (1988; Zbl 0678.01008)