Pierre Colmez (born 1962) is a French mathematician, notable for his work on p-adic analysis.
Pierre Colmez | |
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Born | 1962 (age 61–62) |
Nationality | French |
Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure and Grenoble University |
Children | Coralie Colmez |
Awards | Fermat Prize (2005) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Paris VI University |
Doctoral advisor | John H. Coates Jean-Marc Fontaine |
Colmez studied at École Normale Supérieure and obtained his doctorate from Grenoble University. He won the 2005 Fermat Prize for his contributions to the study of L-functions and p-adic Galois representations.
In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.[1] With Jean-Pierre Serre he edited the Correspondance Grothendieck-Serre (2001).[2][3]
He works on special values of L-functions and -adic representations of -adic groups at the meeting point of Fontaine's and Langlands' programs. His contributions include:
Pierre Colmez and Leila Schneps are the parents of Coralie Colmez.[19][20] Violinist David Grimal is Colmez's first cousin.
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