Jean-Marc Fontaine
Encyclopedia
Jean-Marc Fontaine is a French
mathematician. He is one of founders of p-adic Hodge theory
. He is a professor at Paris-Sud 11 University
since 1988.
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
mathematician. He is one of founders of p-adic Hodge theory
P-adic Hodge theory
In mathematics, p-adic Hodge theory is a theory that provides a way to classify and study p-adic Galois representations of characteristic 0 local fields with residual characteristic p . The theory has its beginnings in Jean-Pierre Serre and John Tate's study of Tate modules of abelian varieties and...
. He is a professor at Paris-Sud 11 University
Paris-Sud 11 University
University of Paris-Sud or University of Paris-Sud or University of Paris XI is a French university distributed among several campuses in the southern suburb of Paris...
since 1988.
Prizes
- Cours Peccot du Collège de France (1973)
- Prix Carrière de l'Académie des sciences (1984)
- Prix Humboldt-Gay Lussac de la fondation Alexander von Humboldt (2002)