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born 1944 Belgium

Pierre René, Viscount Deligne (born 3 October 1944) is a Belgian mathematician, and academic at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey. He is known for work on the Weil conjectures, leading to a complete proof in 1973.

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The nice thing about mathematics is doing mathematics.

From [Grothendieck] and his example, I have also learned not to take glory in the difficulty of a proof: difficulty means we have not understood. The ideal is to be able to paint a landscape in which the proof is obvious.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Pierre Deligne (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.