Jean-Pierre Wintenberger (1954 – 23 January 2019) was a French
mathematician and a professor of mathematics at the
University of Strasbourg. He was corecipient of the 2011
Cole Prize The Frank Nelson Cole Prize, or Cole Prize for short, is one of twenty-two prizes awarded to mathematicians by the American Mathematical Society, one for an outstanding contribution to algebra, and the other for an outstanding contribution to number ...
in
number theory, along with
Chandrashekhar Khare
Chandrashekhar B. Khare (born 1968) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California Los Angeles. In 2005, he made a major advance in the field of Galois representations and number theory by proving the level 1 Serre conjecture, and ...
, for his proof of
Serre's modularity conjecture.
Wintenberger earned his
Ph.D. at
Joseph Fourier University in 1984, under supervision of
Jean-Marc Fontaine.
Wintenberger died on 23 January 2019.
Décès de Jean-Pierre Wintenberger
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1954 births
2019 deaths
École Normale Supérieure alumni
21st-century French mathematicians
Number theorists
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