Pierre Colmez

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Pierre Colmez
Born1962
NationalityFrance
Alma materÉcole Normale Supérieure and Grenoble University
ChildrenCoralie Colmez
AwardsFermat Prize (2005)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsParis VI University
Doctoral advisorJohn H. Coates
Jean-Marc Fontaine

Pierre Colmez (born 1962) is a French mathematician, notable for his work on p-adic analysis.

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]

Colmez has won the French Go championship four times.[4]

Personal life

Pierre Colmez and Leila Schneps are the parents of Coralie Colmez.[5][6] Violinist David Grimal is Colmez's first cousin.

External links

References

  1. ^ Colmez, Pierre (1998). "Représentations p-adiques d'un corps local". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. II. pp. 153–162.
  2. ^ Raynaud, Michel (October 2003). "Book Review: Correspondance Grothendieck-Serre " (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 50 (9): 1085–1086.
  3. ^ Colmez, P.; Serre, J.-P., eds. (2004). Grothendieck-Serre Correspondence. American Mathematical Society; Société Mathématique de France. ISBN 978-0-8218-3424-4; bilingual edition{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  4. ^ Open - Fédération Française de Go - Jeu de go
  5. ^ "Allow me to explain, Your Honour". The Economist. 2 May 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  6. ^ Tsui, Diana (9 January 2018). "The Mathematician Who Moonlights As a Rock-Band Violinist". The Cut. Retrieved 2 October 2020.