Ngô Bảo Châu

In this Vietnamese name, the surname is Ngô. In accordance with Vietnamese custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Châu.

Ngô Bảo Châu
Ngô Bảo Châu in 2014
Born (1972-06-28) 28 June 1972
Hanoi, Vietnam
Alma materÉcole Normale Supérieure
Université de Paris-Sud
Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
Known forProof of the fundamental lemma
SpouseNguyen Bao Thanh
Children3
AwardsClay Research Award (2004)
Oberwolfach Prize (2007)
Sophie Germain Prize (2007)
Fields Medal (2010)
Legion of Honour (2011)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversité Sorbonne Paris Nord
Université Paris-Sud
Institute for Advanced Study
University of Chicago
Thesis Le lemme fondamental de Jacquet et Ye en égales caractéristiques  (1997)
Doctoral advisorGérard Laumon

Ngô Bảo Châu (Vietnamese: [ŋo ɓa᷉ːw cəw], born 28 June 1972) is a Vietnamese-French mathematician at the University of Chicago, best known for proving the fundamental lemma for automorphic forms (proposed by Robert Langlands and Diana Shelstad). He is the first Vietnamese national to have received the Fields Medal.

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