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
- Deligne-Lusztig Theory (with George Lusztig)
- Deligne-Mumford Moduli Space of Curves (with David Bryant Mumford)
- Deligne-Mumford Stack (with David Bryant Mumford)
- Fourier-Deligne Transform (after Joseph Fourier)
- Deligne Cohomology
- Deligne Motive
- Deligne Tensor Product of Abelian Categories (denoted $\boxtimes$)
- Langlands-Deligne Local Constant (with Robert Phelan Langlands)
- Weil-Deligne Group (with André Abraham Weil)
Publications
Also known as
Properly titled Viscount Deligne.