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Born July 28, 1954 (age 70) • Gelsenkirchen • West Germany
Awards And Honors Fields Medal (1986)
Subjects Of Study Mordell’s conjecture

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Alexandre Grothendieck
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Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, 2004.
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John Willard Milnor, 2011.
John Willard Milnor
American mathematician
Ngo Bao Chau
Ngo Bao Chau
Vietnamese-French mathematician
Sergei Novikov
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Vladimir Voevodsky
Russian mathematician
Pierre Deligne
Belgian mathematician
David Mumford
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Hironaka Heisuke
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Mori Shigefumi
Japanese mathematician
Maxim Kontsevich
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Richard Ewen Borcherds
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Emmy Noether
Emmy Noether
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Wendelin Werner
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John von Neumann
John von Neumann
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Euclid
Euclid
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Diophantus
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Sir William Rowan Hamilton
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