Nationality French Role Mathematician Institutions CNRS | Doctoral students Ngo Dac Tuan Doctoral advisor Gerard Laumon Name Laurent Lafforgue | |
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Known for Proof of Langlands conjectures Education University of Paris-Sud, Ecole Normale Superieure, Lycee Louis-le-Grand Notable awards | ||
Laurent lafforgue 1 3 cat gories syntactiques pour les motifs de nori
Laurent Lafforgue ([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 monumental proof is the result of more than six years of concentrated efforts.
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- Laurent lafforgue 1 3 cat gories syntactiques pour les motifs de nori
- Laurent lafforgue 1 4 fonctorialit et formules de poisson non lin aires
- Biography
- Career
- Views
- Works
- References
In 2002 at the 24th International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing, China, he received the Fields Medal together with Vladimir Voevodsky.
Laurent lafforgue 1 4 fonctorialit et formules de poisson non lin aires
Biography
Laurent Lafforgue has two brothers, Thomas and Vincent, both mathematicians. The two brothers are now a teacher in a classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles at Lycée Louis le Grand in Paris and a CNRS researcher at the Institute Fourier in Grenoble, respectively.
He won 2 silver medals at International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in 1984 and 1985. He entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1986. In 1994 he received his Ph.D. under the direction of Gérard Laumon in the Arithmetic and Algebraic Geometry team at the Université de Paris-Sud. Currently he is a research director of CNRS, detached as permanent professor of mathematics at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (I.H.E.S.) in Bures-sur-Yvette, France.
Career
He received the Clay Research Award in 2000, and the Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand of the French Academy of Sciences in 2001. His younger brother Vincent Lafforgue is also a notable mathematician. On 22 May 2011 Lafforgue was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Notre Dame.
Views
Lafforgue is a critic of what he calls the "pedagogically correct" in France's educational system. In 2005, he was forced to resign from the Haut conseil de l'éducation after he expressed these views in a private letter that he sent to Bruno Racine, president of the HCE, that later was made public.