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Pierre
René DELIGNE
born October 3, 1944, Brussels, Belgium
Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
Gave solution of the three Weil conjectures concerning generalizations
of the Riemann hypothesis to finite fields. His work did much
to unify algebraic geometry and algebraic number theory.
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Charles
Louis FEFFERMAN
born April 18, 1949, Washington, D.C.
Princeton University
Contributed several innovations that revised the study of multidimensional
complex analysis by finding correct generalizations of classical
(low-dimensional) results.
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Gregori
Aleksandrovitch MARGULIS
born February 24, Moscow
Moscow University
Provided innovative analysis of the structure of Lie groups.
His work belongs to combinatorics, differential geometry, ergodic
theory, dynamical systems, and Lie groups.
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Daniel G. QUILLEN
born June 27, 1940, Orange, New Jersey
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The prime architect of the higher algebraic K-theory,
a new tool that successfully employed geometric and topological
methods and ideas to formulate and solve major problems in algebra,
particularly ring theory and module theory.
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This document has been reproduced from
The Website of International Congress of
Mathematicians, Berlin 1998.
Albers, Donald J.; Alexanderson, G. L.;
Reid, Constance:
International mathematical congresses. An illustrated history
1893 - 1986
Rev. ed. including ICM 1986. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1986
with friendly permission from Springer
Verlag
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