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Born August 12, 1930 (age 94) • Belgium
Awards And Honors Abel Prize (2008)

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Mikhail Gromov
Soviet-born French mathematician
John Griggs Thompson
John Griggs Thompson
American mathematician
Évariste Galois, detail of an engraving, 1848, after a drawing by Alfred Galois.
Évariste Galois
French mathematician
Camille Jordan
French mathematician
Andrew John Wiles
Andrew Wiles
British mathematician
Alain Connes
Alain Connes
French mathematician
Serre, Jean-Pierre
Jean-Pierre Serre
French mathematician
Pierre Deligne
Belgian mathematician
Henri Cartan
French mathematician
Charles, Jacques-Alexandre-César
Jacques Charles
French physicist
Sophus Lie, detail of an engraving c. 1885.
Sophus Lie
Norwegian mathematician
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Felix Klein
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Georg Frobenius
German mathematician
Efim Zelmanov
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Leonard Eugene Dickson
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Endre Szemerédi
Endre Szemerédi
Hungarian American mathematician
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John Nash
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Peter Lax, 2005.
Peter Lax
Hungarian-American mathematician

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