Credit: © Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation / Flemming – 2016 Vladimir Voevodsky was awarded the Fields Medal in 2002 for his work on motivic cohomology leading to a proof of the Milnor conjecture. He’s here … Weiterlesen
Credit: © Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation / Flemming – 2016 Sir Michael Atiyah is here at the 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum both as a Fields Medalist (1966) and a winner of the Abel Prize (2004). … Weiterlesen
In a previous posting I explained a bit about the Langlands program, and the role of Fields medalist Ngo Bao Chau in finishing the proof of a special case of the general functoriality conjecture. The … Weiterlesen
The Langlands program is the name generally given to a highly influential vision unifying two different areas of mathematics, referring to a set of ideas first brought to light by Robert Langlands at the end … Weiterlesen
Fields medalist Gerd Faltings is here in Heidelberg for the HLF, and while he’s not giving a talk he will be participating in other activities such as visits by the laureates to local schools. He’s … Weiterlesen