Work : Prize 2002 (Fields Medal)
French mathematician, who has made outstanding contributions to Langlands program in the fields of number theory and analysis, and in particular proved the Langlands conjectures for the automorphism group of a function field. The crucial contribution by Lafforgue to solve this question is the construction of compactifications of certain moduli stacks of shtukas. The monumental proof is the result of more than six years of concentrated efforts. In 2002 at the 24th International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing, China he received the Fields Medal together with Vladimir Voevodsky. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less
Born: Sun Nov 06 1966 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Birth Place: Antony, France