Nationality France Fields Mathematics | Name Vincent Lafforgue Role Mathematician | |
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Alma mater Ecole Normale Superieure Notable awards European Mathematical Society, CNRS Gold medal | ||
Education Ecole Normale Superieure Doctoral advisor Jean-Benoit Bost Institutions Universite d'Orleans | ||
Interview au cirm vincent lafforgue
Vincent Lafforgue (born on the 20th of January, 1974) is a French mathematician. He is a CNRS "Directeur de Recherches" at the Institute Fourier in Grenoble. Lafforgue was awarded the 2000 EMS Prize for his contribution to the K-theory of operator algebras: the proof of the Baum–Connes conjecture for discrete co-compact subgroups of
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- Interview au cirm vincent lafforgue
- Vincent lafforgue 1 3 param tres de langlands et cohomologie des champs de g chtoucas
- References
Lafforgue participated in the International Mathematical Olympiad and wrote two perfect papers in 1990 and 1991, making him one of only two French mathematicians to win two gold medals (besides Joseph Najnudel, 1997–98). He is the younger brother of Fields Medalist Laurent Lafforgue.