1974 Fields Medal (1)

Reason for Award

Major contributions in theprimes, inunivalent functionsand the localBieberbach conjecture, intheory of functionsof several complex variables, and in theory ofpartial differential equationsand minimal surfaces - in particular, to the solution of Bernstein's problem in higher dimensions.

Laureates

Enrico Bombieri,

Italy Italy

Other works in the same year

Contributed to problems of the existence and structure of varieties of moduli, varieties whose points parametrize isomorphism classes of some type of geometric object. Also made several important contributions to the theory ofalgebraic surfaces.

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