Mathematician:Pierre René Deligne

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Mathematician

Belgian mathematician best known for work on the Weil Conjectures, leading to a complete proof in $1973$.


Fields Medal

Pierre René Deligne was awarded a Fields Medal in $\text {1978}$ at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada:

Gave solution of the three Weil conjectures concerning generalizations of the Riemann hypothesis to finite fields. His work did much to unify algebraic geometry and algebraic number theory.


Wolf Prize

Pierre René Deligne was awarded a Wolf Prize for Mathematics in $\text {2008}$:

For his work on mixed Hodge theory; the Weil conjectures; the Riemann-Hilbert correspondence; and for his contributions to arithmetic.


Abel Prize

Pierre René Deligne was awarded an Abel Prize in $\text {2013}$:

For seminal contributions to algebraic geometry and for their transformative impact on number theory, representation theory, and related fields.


Nationality

Belgian


History

  • Born: 3 October 1944 in Etterbeek, Brussels, Belgium


Theorems and Definitions


Publications

Also known as

Properly titled Viscount Deligne.


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