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Born October 5, 1973 (age 51) • Brive-la-Gaillarde • France
Awards And Honors Fields Medal (2010)
Subjects Of Study entropy
Stanislav Smirnov
Russian mathematician
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician
Alain Connes
Alain Connes
French mathematician
Alexandre Grothendieck
German-French mathematician
Serre, Jean-Pierre
Jean-Pierre Serre
French mathematician
Wendelin Werner
French mathematician
Ngo Bao Chau
Ngo Bao Chau
Vietnamese-French mathematician
Laurent Lafforgue
French mathematician
Laurent Schwartz
French mathematician
René Frédéric Thom
French mathematician
Pierre-Louis Lions
French mathematician
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
French mathematician
Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
British mathematician
Vito Volterra
Italian mathematician
George Green
British mathematician
Stephen Smale
American mathematician
Grigori Perelman
Russian mathematician
Enrico Bombieri
Italian mathematician
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, 2004.
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah
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