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Laurent Lafforgue

1966 - Today

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Laurent Lafforgue (French: [lafɔʁɡ]; born 6 November 1966) is a French mathematician. He has made outstanding contributions to Langlands' program in the fields of number theory and analysis, and in particular proved the Langlands conjectures for the automorphism group of a function field. The crucial contribution by Lafforgue to solve this question is the construction of compactifications of certain moduli stacks of shtukas. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Laurent Lafforgue has received more than 134,476 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Laurent Lafforgue is the 820th most popular mathematician (down from 732nd in 2019), the 4,723rd most popular biography from France (down from 4,245th in 2019) and the 105th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Laurent Lafforgue ranks 820 out of 1,004. Before him are Mary Everest Boole, Cornelius Lanczos, Arthur Geoffrey Walker, Armand Borel, James Waddell Alexander II, and Boris Galerkin. After him are Nikolai Bugaev, Ludwig Schläfli, Claire Voisin, Ivan Petrovsky, Heinz Prüfer, and Stanislav Smirnov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Laurent Lafforgue ranks 248. Before him are Lochlyn Munro, Alka Yagnik, Sonexay Siphandone, Vladimir Voevodsky, Derek Sherinian, and Biréli Lagrène. After him are Peaches, Ken Sugimori, Tom McCarthy, Marin Hinkle, Aminatou Haidar, and Oh Eun-sun.

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In France

Among people born in France, Laurent Lafforgue ranks 4,723 out of 6,770. Before him are Édouard Ménétries (1802), Samuel Le Bihan (1965), Alain Decaux (1925), Jean Lassalle (1955), Biréli Lagrène (1966), and Numa Andoire (1908). After him are Edward Gardère (1909), Robert Siatka (1934), Didier Lockwood (1956), Karan Singh (1931), Émile Fisseux (1868), and Armand Blanchonnet (1903).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Laurent Lafforgue ranks 105. Before him are Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger (1790), Victor Puiseux (1820), Joseph-Alfred Serret (1819), Jacques-Louis Lions (1928), Marie-Jeanne de Lalande (1768), and Cédric Villani (1973). After him are Claire Voisin (1962), Paul Montel (1876), Roger Apéry (1916), Cécile DeWitt-Morette (1922), Henri Padé (1863), and James Lighthill (1924).

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