Pierre Rene, Viscount Deligne is a Belgian mathematician.
16 Facts About Pierre Deligne
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Pierre Deligne is best known for work on the Weil conjectures, leading to a complete proof in 1973.
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Pierre Deligne is the winner of the 2013 Abel Prize, 2008 Wolf Prize, 1988 Crafoord Prize, and 1978 Fields Medal.
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Pierre Deligne completed his doctorate at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay 1972 under the supervision of Alexander Grothendieck, with a thesis titled Theorie de Hodge.
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Pierre Deligne introduced the concept of weights and tested them on objects in complex geometry.
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Pierre Deligne collaborated with David Mumford on a new description of the moduli spaces for curves.
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Pierre Deligne's contribution was to supply the estimate of the eigenvalues of the Frobenius endomorphism, considered the geometric analogue of the Riemann hypothesis.
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From 1970 until 1984, Pierre Deligne was a permanent member of the IHES staff.
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In joint work with George Lusztig, Pierre Deligne applied etale cohomology to construct representations of finite groups of Lie type; with Michael Rapoport, Pierre Deligne worked on the moduli spaces from the 'fine' arithmetic point of view, with application to modular forms.
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In 1984, Pierre Deligne moved to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
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In 1974 at the IHES, Pierre Deligne's joint paper with Phillip Griffiths, John Morgan and Dennis Sullivan on the real homotopy theory of compact Kahler manifolds was a major piece of work in complex differential geometry which settled several important questions of both classical and modern significance.
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Pierre Deligne was awarded the Fields Medal in 1978, the Crafoord Prize in 1988, the Balzan Prize in 2004, the Wolf Prize in 2008, and the Abel Prize in 2013, "for seminal contributions to algebraic geometry and for their transformative impact on number theory, representation theory, and related fields".
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Pierre Deligne was elected a foreign member of the Academie des Sciences de Paris in 1978.
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In 2009, Pierre Deligne was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and a residential member of the American Philosophical Society.
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Pierre Deligne is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
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Pierre Deligne wrote multiple hand-written letters to other mathematicians in the 1970s.