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Laurent Lafforgue is a French mathematician born in Antony in 1966. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and has worked for the National Center for Scientific Research and the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques. His academic background includes studies at Lycée Louis-le-Grand, the University of Paris-Sud, and the École Normale Supérieure. He received his doctorate under the supervision of Gérard Laumon.
Lafforgue’s professional achievements include receiving the Fields Medal, the Jacques Herbrand Prize, the Concours général, and the Clay Research Award. He participated in the International Mathematical Olympiad and is recognized in the Fields Medal collection. He speaks French and has a sibling named Vincent Lafforgue. His Erdős number is 5.
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1966-11-06 ) 6 November 1966 (age 59) , Antony, Hauts-de-Seine , France
- Alma mater
- École Normale Supérieure , Paris-Saclay University
- Known for
- Proof of Langlands conjectures
- Awards
- Clay Research Award (2000), Fields Medal (2002)
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- CNRS
- Thesis
- D-stukas de Drinfeld (1994)
- Doctoral advisor
- Gérard Laumon
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Laurent
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Antony
- Occupation
- mathematician
- Educated at
- University of Paris-Sud
- Languages spoken
- French
- Participant in
- International Mathematical Olympiad
- Doctoral advisor
- Gérard Laumon
- Field of work
- mathematics
- Official website
- www.ihes.fr/~lafforgue
- Image
- Laurent Lafforgue.png
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- date of birth
- 1966-11-06
- Erdős number
- 5
- name in native language
- Laurent Lafforgue
- Commons category
- Laurent Lafforgue
- described at URL
- www.academie-sciences.fr/pdf/membre/LafforgueL_bio1005.pdf
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Laurent Lafforgue ( French: [lafɔʁɡ]; born 6 November 1966) is a French mathematician. He has made outstanding contributions to Langlands' program in the fields of number theory and analysis, and in particular proved the Langlands conjectures for the automorphism group of a function field. The crucial contribution by Lafforgue to solve this question is the construction of compactifications of certain moduli stacks of shtukas. The proof was the result of more than six years of concentrated efforts.
In 2002 at the 24th International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing, China, he received the Fields Medal together with Vladimir Voevodsky.
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