After our introduction to the blog last week we have decided to start our first official post talking about the new Abel Prize 2013 winner, Pierre Deligne.
The Abel Prize is an international award presented by the King of Norway to the most outstanding mathematicians. It is named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel, the award was first established in 2001 by the Government of Norway.
This year the award was given to Pierre Deligne for his seminal contributions to algebraic geometry and for their transformative impact on number theory.
Pierre Deligne was born in Belgium in 1944. He studied maths at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and carried on to do a doctorate in the institute of scientific studies in Paris.A few years later he moved to the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Princeton where he became a permanent member of the staff. During this time he did much important work on algebraic geometry, working alongside George Lusztig. In these few years is where he earned most of his awards such as the Fields Medal in 1978, the Crafoord Prize in 1988 and the Balzan Prize in 2004.
One of the results that Deligne is famous for is solving the conjecture of Ramanujan. The statement of the conjecture is the following:
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Following his previous work, Deligne, proved right the Weil conjectures in 1974.
