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Born February 23, 1951 (age 74) • Nagoya • Japan
Awards And Honors Fields Medal (1990)
Hironaka Heisuke
Japanese mathematician
Alexandre Grothendieck
German-French mathematician
John Willard Milnor, 2011.
John Willard Milnor
American mathematician
Ngo Bao Chau
Ngo Bao Chau
Vietnamese-French mathematician
Andrei Okounkov
Russian mathematician
Sergei Novikov
Russian mathematician
Vladimir Voevodsky
Russian mathematician
Pierre Deligne
Belgian mathematician
Gerd Faltings
Gerd Faltings
German mathematician
David Mumford
British mathematician
Maxim Kontsevich
Russian mathematician
Kodaira Kunihiko
Kodaira Kunihiko
Japanese mathematician
André Weil
French mathematician
John Tate
American mathematician
Charles-Émile Picard.
Charles-Émile Picard
French mathematician
Sir William Hodge
British mathematician
Alain Connes
Alain Connes
French mathematician
Stephen Smale
American mathematician
Grigori Perelman
Russian mathematician
Enrico Bombieri
Italian mathematician

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