1978 Fields Medal (2)
Reason for Award
Contributed several innovations that revised the study of multidimensionalcomplex analysisby finding correct generalizations of classical (low-dimensional) results.
Laureates
Charles Louis Fefferman,
United States of America
Other works in the same year
- Gave solution of the threeWeil conjecturesconcerning generalizations of theRiemann hypothesisto finite fields. His work did much to unifyalgebraic geometryandalgebraic number theory.
- Provided innovative analysis of the structure ofLie groups. His work belongs tocombinatorics,differential geometry,ergodic theory,dynamical systems, and Lie groups.
- The prime architect of the higheralgebraic K-theory, a new tool that successfully employed geometric and topological methods and ideas to formulate and solve major problems in algebra, particularlyring theoryandmodule theory.