Project History

Belgium/USA

Pierre Deligne

2004 Balzan Prize for Mathematics

For major contributions to several important domains of mathematics (including algebraic geometry, algebraic and analytic number theory, group theory, topology, and Grothendieck theory of motives), enriching them with new and powerful tools and with magnificent results such as his spectacular proof of the Riemann hypothesis over finite fields (Weil conjectures).

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