Vincent Lafforgue
Mathematician, Academic
Who is Vincent Lafforgue?
Vincent Lafforgue is a French mathematician. He is a "Directeur de Recherches" at the Université d'Orléans since September 1, 2010. Lafforgue was awarded the 2000 EMS Prize for his contribution to the K-theory of operator algebras: the proof of the Baum–Connes conjecture for discrete co-compact subgroups of, and some other locally compact group.
Lafforgue participated in the International Mathematical Olympiad and wrote two perfect papers in 1990 and 1991, making him one of only two French mathematicians to win two gold medals. He is the younger brother of Fields Medalist Laurent Lafforgue.
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