Paris-Sud 11 University Alumni - Laurent Lafforgue, Ngo Bao Chau, Jean Christophe, Prince Napoleon, Pierre Reid, Jean-Pierre Hansen (Paperback)

Chapters: Laurent Lafforgue, Ngo Bao Chau, Jean Christophe, Prince Napoleon, Pierre Reid, Jean-Pierre Hansen, Bertrand Serlet, Abdoulaye Diop, Jean-Louis Colliot-Thelene, Christophe Breuil, Jean-Yves le Gall, Gerard Laumon. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ngo Bo Chau (born 1972 in Hanoi, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese mathematician who currently works at the Institute for Advanced Study. Ngo is best-known for proving the fundamental lemma proposed by Robert Langlands and Diana Shelstad, an achievement which was selected by Time as one of the Top Ten Scientific Discoveries of 2009. Robert Fefferman, Dean of the Physical Sciences at the University of Chicago, called Ngo "one of the greatest mathematicians in modern times." For his works, Ngo was awarded the 2004 Clay Research Award. He also became the youngest professor in Vietnam in 2005. Ngo Bo Chau was born in 1972 to an intellectual family in Hanoi, Vietnam. His father, professor Ngo Huy Cn, was a physicist at the Vietnam National Institute of Mechanics. At the age of 15, he was admitted into a Mathematics specializing class of the Vietnam National University High school. At grade 11 and 12, Chau participated respectively in the 29th and 30th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) and became the first Vietnamese student who got two gold medals at IMO, of which the first one was won with a perfect score (42/42). After high school, Ngo was offered by the French government a scholarship for undergraduate study at the Paris VI University but he chose to study in the prestigious Ecole Normale Superieure. He obtained a PhD in 1997 from the Universite Paris-Sud under the supervision of Gerard Laumon. He became member of CNRS at the Paris 13 University, where he stayed from 1998 to 2005. He defended t...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1113365