Christophe Breuil (; born 1968) is a

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mathematician, who works in arithmetic geometry and

algebraic number theory Algebraic number theory is a branch of number theory that uses the techniques of abstract algebra to study the integers, rational numbers, and their generalizations. Number-theoretic questions are expressed in terms of properties of algebraic ob ...

Work

With

Fred Diamond Fred Irvin Diamond (born November 19, 1964) is a mathematician, known for his role in proving the modularity theorem for elliptic curves. His research interest is in modular forms and Galois representations. Diamond received his B.A. from the Un ...

, Richard Taylor and Brian Conrad in 1999, he proved the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture, which previously had only been proved for semistable elliptic curves by Andrew Wiles and Taylor in their proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Later, he worked on the ''p''-adic Langlands conjecture.

Academic life

Breuil attended schools in

Brive-la-Gaillarde Brive-la-Gaillarde (; Limousin dialect of oc, Briva la Galharda) is a commune of France. It is a sub-prefecture and the largest city of the Corrèze department. It has around 46,000 inhabitants, while the population of the agglomeration was 7 ...

and Toulouse and studied from 1990 to 1992 at the École Polytechnique. In 1993, he obtained his DEA degree at the Paris-Sud 11 University located in Orsay. From 1993 to 1996 he conducted research at the École Polytechnique and taught simultaneously at the University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, and in 1996 received his PhD from the École Polytechnique, supervised by Jean-Marc Fontaine with the thesis "Cohomologie log-cristalline et représentations galoisiennes p -adiques". In 1997, he gave the Cours Peccot at the Collège de France. In 2001 he obtained a habilitation degree entitled "Aspects entiers de la théorie de Hodge p-adique et applications" at Paris-Sud 11 University. Between 2002 to 2010 he was at the IHES. From 2010 he has been in the Mathematics Department of University of Paris-Sud as Director of Research with the

CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...

. In 2007-2008 he was a visiting professor at Columbia University.

Awards and recognition

In 1993 he was awarded the Prix Gaston Julia at the École Polytechnique. In 2002 he received the of the

French Academy of Sciences The French Academy of Sciences (French: ''Académie des sciences'') is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV of France, Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French Scientific me ...

and the 2006 Prix Dargelos Anciens Élèves of the École Polytechnique. He was an invited speaker in

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...

2010, Hyderabad on the topic of "''Number Theory.''"

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