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Born April 1, 1947 (age 78) • France
Awards And Honors Fields Medal

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Cédric Villani
French mathematician
Laurent Schwartz
French mathematician
Minsky, Marvin
Marvin Minsky
American scientist
Richard Karp
Richard Karp
American mathematician and computer scientist
Dana Stewart Scott.
Dana Scott
American mathematician, logician, and computer scientist
Alexandre Grothendieck
German-French mathematician
Serre, Jean-Pierre
Jean-Pierre Serre
French mathematician
Wendelin Werner
French mathematician
Ngo Bao Chau
Ngo Bao Chau
Vietnamese-French mathematician
Laurent Lafforgue
French mathematician
René Frédéric Thom
French mathematician
Jacques Tits
Jacques Tits
Belgian mathematician
Pierre-Louis Lions
French mathematician
Jean Dieudonné
French mathematician
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
French mathematician
Charles, Jacques-Alexandre-César
Jacques Charles
French physicist
Deslandres
Henri-Alexandre Deslandres
French physicist
Stephen Smale
American mathematician
Grigori Perelman
Russian mathematician
Enrico Bombieri
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