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Laurent Lafforgue

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Laurent Lafforgue is a French mathematician, born: November 6 1966, Antony, France.

He graduated from the Ecole Normale Superieure in 1986. In 1994 he received his Ph. D. in the Arithmetic and Algebraic Geometry team at the Universite de Paris-Sud. Currently he is a permanent professor of mathematics at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (I.H.E.S) in Bures-sur-yvette, France.

In 2002 at the 24th International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing, China he received the Fields Medal together with Vladimir Voevodsky. Lafforge made outstanding contributions to Langlands program in the fields of the number theory and analysis.

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