Pierre Colmez
French mathematician

Pierre Colmez

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French mathematician
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1 January 1962
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Pierre Colmez (born 1962) is a French mathematician, notable for his work on p-adic analysis.

Colmez studied at École Normale Supérieure and obtained his doctorate from Grenoble University. He won the 2005 Fermat Prize for his contributions to the study of L-functions and p-adic Galois representations.

Colmez has won the French go championship four times.

Personal life

Pierre Colmez and Leila Schneps are the parents of Coralie Colmez.