médaille Fields 2002 : lauréats

Destinataires

1. Laurent Lafforgue

   Mathématiques

   Laurent Lafforgue has been awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Langlands correspondence for the full linear groups GLr (r≥1) over function fields of positive characteristic.

2. Vladimir Voevodsky

   Mathématiques

   He defined and developed motivic cohomology and the A1-homotopy theory, provided a framework for describing many new cohomology theories for algebraic varieties; he proved the Milnor conjectures on the K-theory of fields.