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Also known as Pierre Rene Deligne

Belgian mathematician

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Works
19

Top works

  • Théorie de Hodge, III
  • The arithmetic theory of loop groups
  • Faisceaux pervers
  • These etat
  • Theorie des Topos et Cohomologie Etale des Schemas. Seminaire de Geometrie Algebrique du Bois-Marie 1963-1964

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Going deeper with convolutions

    · 2015 · cited 32,884x

  2. Classification of Surgical Complications

    · 2004 · cited 28,247x

  3. Array programming with NumPy

    · 2020 · cited 23,494x

  4. Outline of a Theory of Practice

    · 1977 · cited 19,111x

  5. Testing for a unit root in time series regression

    · 1988 · cited 12,673x

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Quotes

  • The nice thing about mathematics is doing mathematics.
  • From Grothendieck] and his example, I have also learned not to take glory in the difficulty of a proof: difficulty means we have not understood. The ideal is to be able to paint a landscape in which the proof is obvious.

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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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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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