Laurent Lafforgue


Laurent Lafforgue (born 1966) French mathematician, educator and research director of National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). After earning in arithmetic and algebraic geometryMathworldPlanetmathPlanetmathPlanetmath, Lafforgue proved Langland’s conjectures on GLn of a function field. In 2002 he was awarded the Fields medal.

Title Laurent Lafforgue
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