Laurent Lafforgue

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Laurent Lafforgue
CNRS
ThesisD-stukas de Drinfeld (1994)
Doctoral advisorGérard Laumon

Laurent Lafforgue (French:

shtukas. The proof was the result of more than six years of concentrated efforts.[2]

In 2002 at the 24th International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing, China, he received the Fields Medal together with Vladimir Voevodsky.[3]

Biography

Laurent Lafforgue has two brothers, Thomas and

CNRS
directeur de recherches at the Institut Fourier in Grenoble.

He won 2 silver medals at

CNRS. He was detached as permanent professor of mathematics at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS) in Bures-sur-Yvette, France, in 2000-2021. In 2021, he left his IHÉS position and moved to Huawei.[4]

Laurent is a devout Catholic and never married.[5]

Career

He received the

Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand [fr] of the French Academy of Sciences in 2001 and was awarded the Fields Medal in 2002. 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.[6]

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.[7]

Works

Expository articles

  • Lafforgue, L. Chtoucas de Drinfeld et applications. [Drinfelʹd shtukas and applications] Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. II (Berlin, 1998). Doc. Math. 1998, Extra Vol. II, 563–570.
  • Lafforgue, Laurent. Chtoucas de Drinfeld, formule des traces d'Arthur-Selberg et correspondance de Langlands. [Drinfelʹd shtukas, Arthur-Selberg trace formula and Langlands correspondence] Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. I (Beijing, 2002), 383–400, Higher Ed. Press, Beijing, 2002.
    arXiv:math/0212399

Research articles

  • Lafforgue, Laurent. Chtoucas de Drinfeld et correspondance de Langlands. [Drinfelʹd shtukas and Langlands correspondence] Invent. Math. 147 (2002), no. 1, 1–241.

Notes

  1. ^ D Mackenzie (2000) Fermat's Last Theorem's First Cousin, Science 287(5454), 792-793.
  2. MR 1989178
  3. ^ Friedlander, Eric M.; Rapoport, Michael; Suslin, Andrei (2003). "The mathematical work of the 2002 Fields medalists" (PDF). Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 50 (2): 212–217.
  4. ^ "French Mathematician Laurent Lafforgue joins Huawei team". 28 September 2021.
  5. ^ "The Christ is the truth" (PDF).
  6. ^ University of Notre Dame. "Honorary Degree". Archived from the original on 13 August 2011. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
  7. ^ "" Démission " forcée de Laurent Lafforgue, mathématicien français, du Haut Conseil de l'Education (HCE)", Polémia (in French), December 10, 2005.

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External links

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