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Born November 6, 1966 (age 60) • France
Awards And Honors Fields Medal (2002)
Subjects Of Study number theory
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Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician
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Joseph Liouville
French mathematician
Engraved portrait of Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler in profile, wearing a dark coat and ruffled white shirt, from the 1740s.
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Godfrey Hardy, 1941
G.H. Hardy
English mathematician
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Enrico Bombieri
Italian mathematician
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Klaus Friedrich Roth
British mathematician
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Alan Baker
British mathematician
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Jean Bourgain
Belgian mathematician
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Elon Lindenstrauss
Israeli mathematician
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Atle Selberg
American mathematician
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Charles Fefferman
American mathematician
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis, comte de l'Empire
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, comte de l’Empire
French mathematician
Joseph Fourier
Joseph Fourier
French mathematician
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Marin Mersenne
French mathematician
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Augustin-Louis Cauchy
French mathematician
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Sophie Germain
French mathematician
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André Weil
French mathematician
Lebesgue, portrait by an unknown artist, 1929
Henri-Léon Lebesgue
French mathematician

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