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Pierre René, Viscount Deligne (French: [dəliɲ]; born 3 October 1944) is a Belgian mathematician. He is best known for work on the Weil conjectures, leading to a complete proof in 1973. He is the winner of the 2013 Abel Prize, 2008 Wolf Prize, 1988 Crafoord Prize, and 1978 Fields Medal.
Pierre Deligne is the recipient of the 2013 Abel Prize of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. This interview was conducted by Martin Raussen and Christian Skau in Oslo in May 2013 in conjunction with the Abel Prize celebra-tion. This article originally appeared in the September 2013 issue of the Newsletter of the European Mathematical ...
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Pierre René, Viscount Deligne (French: [dəliɲ]; born 3 October 1944) is a Belgian mathematician. He is best known for work on the Weil conjectures, leading to a complete proof in 1973. He is the winner of the 2013 Abel Prize, 2008 Wolf Prize, 1988 Crafoord Prize, and 1978 Fields Medal.
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Pierre René, Viscount Deligne (French: [dəliɲ]; born 3 October 1944) is a Belgian mathematician. He is known for work on the Weil conjectures, leading to a complete proof in 1973. He is the winner of the 2013 Abel Prize, 2008 Wolf Prize, 1988 Crafoord Prize, and 1978 Fields Medal.
Deligne was born in Etterbeek, attended school at Athénée Adolphe Max and studied at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), writing a dissertation titled Théorème de Lefschetz et critères de dégénérescence de suites spectrales. He completed his doctorate at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay 1972 under the supervision of Alexander Grothendieck,...
He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1978, the Crafoord Prize in 1988, the Balzan Prize in 2004, the Wolf Prize in 2008, and the Abel Prize in 2013. In 2006 he was ennobled by the Belgian king as viscount. In 2009, Deligne was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Let...
Deligne, Pierre (1974). "La conjecture de Weil: I". Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS 43: 273–307. doi:10.1007/bf02684373. http://www.numdam.org/item?id=PMIHES_1974__43__273_0.Deligne, Pierre (1980). "La conjecture de Weil : II". Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS 52: 137–252. doi:10.1007/BF02684780. http://www.numdam.org/item?id=PMIHES_1980__52__137_0.Deligne, Pierre (1990). "Catégories tannakiennes". Grothendieck Festschrift vol II. Progress in Mathematics 87: 111–195. https://publications.ias.edu/deligne/paper/406.Deligne, Pierre; Mostow, G. Daniel (1993). Commensurabilities among Lattices in PU(1,n). Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-00096-4.Deligne wrote multiple hand-written letters to other mathematicians in the 1970s. These include 1. "Deligne’s letter to Piatetskii-Shapiro (1973)". Archived from the original on 7 December 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121207001945/http://www.math.ias.edu/~jaredw/DeligneLetterToPiatetskiShapiro.pdf. Retrieved 15 December 2012. 2. "Deligne’s l...
The following mathematical concepts are named after Deligne: 1. Deligne–Lusztig theory 2. Deligne–Mumford moduli space of curves 3. Deligne–Mumford stacks 4. Fourier–Deligne transform 5. Deligne cohomology 6. Deligne motive 7. Deligne tensor product of abelian categories (denoted [math]\displaystyle{ \boxtimes }[/math]) 8. Langlands–Deligne local c...
Pierre Deligne is a Belgian mathematician who won a Fields Medal in 1978 for his work on algebraic number theory. He received many other prizes and awards, in particular the Wolf Prize in 2008 and the Abel Prize in 2013.
Mar 20, 2013 · Pierre Deligne netted the prize, one oft he most prestigious in mathematics and worth about $1 million, for proving a deep conjecture about algebraic geometry which has helped to transform...
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