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Born August 11, 1956 (age 68) • Grasse • France
Awards And Honors Fields Medal (1994)
Subjects Of Study Boltzmann transport equation • partial differential equation
René Frédéric Thom
French mathematician
Terence Tao
Australian mathematician
Jean Bourgain
Belgian mathematician
Charles Fefferman
American mathematician
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
French mathematician and philosopher
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
Cédric Villani
French mathematician
Laurent Schwartz
French mathematician
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
French mathematician
Peter Lax, 2005.
Peter Lax
Hungarian-American mathematician
Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg
Canadian-born American mathematician
Carl Jacobi
German mathematician
Sofya Kovalevskaya, c. 1875–80.
Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya
Russian mathematician
James H. Wilkinson
English mathematician
Edward Thomas Copson
British mathematician

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