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Ngô Bảo Châu

1972 - Today

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Ngô Bảo Châu (Vietnamese: [ŋo ɓa᷉ːw cəw], born June 28, 1972) is a Vietnamese-French mathematician at the University of Chicago, best known for proving the fundamental lemma for automorphic forms (proposed by Robert Langlands and Diana Shelstad). He is the first Vietnamese national to have received the Fields Medal. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2024). Ngô Bảo Châu is the 880th most popular mathematician (down from 799th in 2024), the 102nd most popular biography from Vietnam (down from 95th in 2019) and the most popular Vietnamese Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Ngô Bảo Châu ranks 880 out of 1,004. Before him are Tom M. Apostol, Wilhelm Wirtinger, Walther von Dyck, Michael Aschbacher, Andrzej Mostowski, and Anatoly Maltsev. After him are Garrett Birkhoff, Kenneth Appel, James Lighthill, Adele Goldstine, Herman Chernoff, and Juliusz Schauder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Ngô Bảo Châu ranks 274. Before him are James Dashner, Junichi Suwabe, Anders Thomas Jensen, Florin Cîțu, Masahiro Nakai, and Fabrice Santoro. After him are Maya Rudolph, Ai Iijima, Kelly Chen, Shuntaro Furukawa, Chiharu Shiota, and Yogi Adityanath.

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In Vietnam

Among people born in Vietnam, Ngô Bảo Châu ranks 102 out of 136. Before him are Yvon Petra (1916), Nguyễn Văn Trỗi (1940), Trịnh Công Sơn (1939), Võ Thị Ánh Xuân (1970), Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum (1905), and Phạm Nhật Vượng (1968). After him are Dany Carrel (1932), Võ Văn Thưởng (1970), Philipp Rösler (1973), Eugene H. Trinh (1950), Phạm Duy (1921), and Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân (1954).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Vietnam

Among mathematicians born in Vietnam, Ngô Bảo Châu ranks 1. 

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