2002 Fields Medal (1)

Reason for Award

Laurent Lafforgue has been awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of theLanglands correspondencefor thefull linear groupsGLr(r≥1) overfunction fields.

Laureates

Laurent Lafforgue,

France France

Other works in the same year

he defined and developed motivic cohomology and the A1-homotopy theory ofalgebraic varieties; he proved theMilnor conjectureson theK-theoryof fields

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