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Born July 17, 1975 (age 49) • Adelaide • Australia
Awards And Honors Fields Medal (2006)
Subjects Of Study Schrödinger equation • arithmetic progression • gravitational wave • partial differential equation • prime
Enrico Bombieri
Italian mathematician
Pierre-Louis Lions
French mathematician
Jean Bourgain
Belgian mathematician
Atle Selberg
American mathematician
Charles Fefferman
American mathematician
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
French mathematician and philosopher
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
Paul Erdős
Paul Erdős
Hungarian mathematician
Marin Mersenne
French mathematician
Endre Szemerédi
Endre Szemerédi
Hungarian American mathematician
Peter Lax, 2005.
Peter Lax
Hungarian-American mathematician
Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg
Canadian-born American mathematician
Carl Jacobi
German mathematician
Godfrey Hardy, 1941.
G.H. Hardy
English mathematician
Sofya Kovalevskaya, c. 1875–80.
Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya
Russian mathematician
James H. Wilkinson
English mathematician
Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev.
Pafnuty Chebyshev
Russian mathematician
Edward Thomas Copson
British mathematician
Johann Friedrich Pfaff
German mathematician
Alain Connes
Alain Connes
French mathematician

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