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Born August 12, 1930 (age 96) ‱ Belgium
Awards And Honors Abel Prize (2008)

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Russian mathematician
Mikhail Gromov
Mikhail Gromov
Soviet-born French mathematician
John Griggs Thompson
John Griggs Thompson
American mathematician
Évariste Galois, detail of an engraving, 1848, after a drawing by Alfred Galois.
Évariste Galois
French mathematician
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Camille Jordan
French mathematician
Andrew John Wiles
Andrew Wiles
British mathematician
Alain Connes
Alain Connes
French mathematician
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Jean-Pierre Serre
French mathematician
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Pierre Deligne
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Jean Dieudonné
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Henri Cartan
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Charles, Jacques-Alexandre-CĂ©sar
Jacques Charles
French physicist
Sophus Lie, detail of an engraving c. 1885.
Sophus Lie
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Jesse Douglas
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Felix Klein
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Georg Frobenius
German mathematician
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Leonard Eugene Dickson
American mathematician
Endre Szemerédi
Endre Szemerédi
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John Nash
American mathematician
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Peter Lax
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