André Weil was a renowned French mathematician born in 1906 in Paris. He studied at the École Normale Supérieure and received his doctorate from the University of Paris in 1928. Throughout his career, Weil held professorships at universities in India, France, Brazil, and the United States. He made fundamental contributions to algebraic geometry and algebraic topology through his work on the Weil conjectures. Weil believed in achieving Hilbert's program of unifying mathematics axiomatically and directed it towards solving significant problems. He published several influential works, including Foundations of Algebraic Geometry, and his autobiography was published in 1992.