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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. The proof was the result of more than six years of concentrated efforts. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2024). Laurent Lafforgue is the 848th most popular mathematician (down from 820th in 2024), the 4,841st most popular biography from France (down from 4,723rd in 2019) and the 106th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Laurent Lafforgue ranks 848 out of 1,004. Before him are Wolfgang Krull, Boris Galerkin, William Shanks, Grigore Moisil, Stanislav Smirnov, and Erich Hecke. After him are Nikolai Bugaev, Dmitri Anosov, Richard Rado, Øystein Ore, Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, and Joseph Wedderburn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Laurent Lafforgue ranks 290. Before him are Corrie Sanders, David Bennent, Juhan Parts, Michael K. Williams, Aigars Kalvītis, and Traylor Howard. After him are Wang Chuanfu, Greg Wise, Andrew Adamson, Csaba Köves, Roberto Gualtieri, and Dexter Fletcher.

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In France

Among people born in France, Laurent Lafforgue ranks 4,841 out of 6,770. Before him are Luc Alphand (1965), Edmond Baraffe (1942), Jacques Rouffio (1928), Jacques Mairesse (1905), Eugène Dabit (1898), and Christine Pascal (1953). After him are Claude Papi (1949), Raphaël Poirée (1974), Roschdy Zem (1965), Michelle Perrot (1928), Jean-Marc Ferreri (1962), and Robert Siatka (1934).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Laurent Lafforgue ranks 106. Before him are Joseph-Alfred Serret (1819), Sylvestre François Lacroix (1765), Victor Puiseux (1820), Paul Montel (1876), Jacques-Louis Lions (1928), and Cécile DeWitt-Morette (1922). After him are Henri Padé (1863), Émile Léonard Mathieu (1835), Cédric Villani (1973), Roger Apéry (1916), James Lighthill (1924), and Claire Voisin (1962).

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