Abstract
Bảo Châu Ngô is a French and Vietnamese mathematician born in 1972 in Vietnam. He completed all his university studies in France. He was admitted to the École normale supérieure in 1992 through the international competitive examination, and obtained his doctorate under the supervision of Gérard Laumon at the Université Paris-Sud in 1997. From 1998 to 2004, he was a CNRS research fellow at the Université Paris-Nord, before moving to Orsay, where he was appointed professor, before joining the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, where he stayed from 2007 to 2010. Since 2010, he has held a Distinguished Professorship at the University of Chicago. He is Scientific Director of the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics.
Bảo Châu Ngô is one of the most renowned specialists in automorphic representations and forms, a branch of the general field of number theory, in which the properties of integers are studied. In this field, we might mention the famous "Fermat theorem", stated by the mathematician Fermat in 1637 and proved by Andrew Wiles in 1994. Bảo Châu Ngô's work is part of what is known as the "Langlands program", named after Canadian-born American mathematician Robert Langlands, who in 1967 formulated a theory establishing fundamental links between arithmetic and group theory, two distinct fields of mathematics. In early 2008, Bảo Châu Ngô demonstrated the "Fundamental Lemma", which was a conjecture formulated in a paper published in 1987, and a particular case of which had been proved in the 1970s. Bảo Châu Ngô's proof, over 150 pages long[Ngô, B.C. The fundamental lemma for Lie algebras. Publ.math.IHES 111, 1-169 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10240-010-0026-7], was cited in the December 2009 issue of Times magazine as one of the 10 most beautiful scientific discoveries of the year.
Bảo Châu Ngô's work has won numerous international awards, including the Fields Medal in 2010. This distinction, the world's most prestigious in mathematics, was awarded to Bảo Châu Ngô for his demonstration of the "fundamental lemma". Since 1936, the Fields Medal has been awarded to mathematicians under the age of 40 at the World Mathematical Congress, held once every four years. It is the most important scientific event for the mathematical community.
