PRINCETON, N.J. — Mathematician Andre Weil, whose work greatly influenced modern mathematical thought, died Aug. 6 at his home in Princeton, N.J. He was 92.

Though no Nobel Prize is awarded in mathematics, Weil received an equivalent honor in 1994 with Japan's Kyoto Prize, which was awarded for his so-called Weil Conjectures. The Conjectures, which provided the guiding principles for algebraic geometry, laid the foundation for the elements of coding theory used to aid the transmission of computer data. Weil's work in number theory also has ties to encryption and computer security.

Weil was born in Paris in 1906 and received his PhD from the University of Paris in 1928. He worked in India, France and Brazil before heading to the United States in 1947. He was named to the faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University in 1958 and remained a professor emeritus there until his death.

In the 1930s, Weil co-founded Bourbaki, a collective of mathematicians pursuing the radical idea of unifying all mathematics into a single volume of works. In the 1950s, he contributed to the Shimura-Taniyama-Weil Conjecture on elliptic curves, which was later linked to Fermat's Last Theorem. Nearly 30 years later, fellow Princeton academic Andrew Wiles made use of that link in his initial, incomplete proof of the theorem in 1993.

Among Weil's most famous books is Foundations of Algebraic Geometry published in 1946. He also wrote an autobiography, The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician, in 1992.