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Pierre Deligne is a Belgian mathematician and university teacher born in 1944. He works in the fields of algebraic geometry, number theory, and mathematics. Deligne is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the French Academy of Sciences, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. He has also been recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences, Fields Medal, and Abel Prize collections.
He received the Abel Prize, Fields medal, Balzan Prize, and Wolf Prize in Mathematics. Deligne was educated at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Free University of Brussels, University of Paris-Sud, and Athénée Adolphe Max. His doctoral advisor was Alexander Grothendieck, and his doctoral students include Michael Rapoport, Lê Dũng Tráng, and Miles Reid. He has worked at the Institute for Advanced Study and the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques.
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1944-10-03 ) 3 October 1944 (age 81) , Etterbeek , Belgium
- Education
- Université libre de Bruxelles ( BS ), Paris-Sud University ( MS , PhD )
- Known for
- Proof of the Weil conjectures , Perverse sheaves , Concepts named after Deligne
- Awards
- Abel Prize (2013) , Wolf Prize (2008), Balzan Prize (2004), Crafoord Prize (1988), Fields Medal (1978)
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- Institute for Advanced Study , Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
- Doctoral advisor
- Alexander Grothendieck
- Doctoral students
- Lê Dũng Tráng , Miles Reid , Michael Rapoport
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Pierre
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Belgium
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Athénée Adolphe Max
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- English language
- Noble title
- burgrave
- Doctoral advisor
- Alexander Grothendieck
- Doctoral student
- Miles Reid
- Field of work
- mathematics
- Official website
- www.math.ias.edu/people/faculty/deligne
- Image
- Pierre Deligne (2005) (cropped).jpg
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- Commons category
- Pierre Deligne
- date of birth
- 1944-10-03
- Erdős number
- 3
- name in native language
- Pierre Deligne
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- interested in
- mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Pierre René, Viscount Deligne ( French: [dəliɲ]; born 3 October 1944) is a Belgian mathematician. He is best known for work on the Weil conjectures, leading to a complete proof in 1973. He is the winner of the 1978 Fields Medal, 1988 Crafoord Prize, 2008 Wolf Prize and 2013 Abel Prize.
Early life and education
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