Alain Connes

From the Crafoord Prize:

"The French mathematician Alain Connes is counted among the world's foremost mathematicians. He has made pioneering and unique contributions to the theory of operator algebras and non-commutative geometry. The latter is a new field of mathematics, in the creation of which Connes has played a decisive part. Alain Connes's work has also provided powerful new methods useable in theoretical physics for treating e.g. renormalization theory and the standard model of quantum and particle physics. He has also demonstrated that these new mathematical tools can be used for understanding and attacking the Riemann hypothesis of the zeta function, considered the most famous open problem in mathematics."

"Crafoord Prize to one of the world's foremost mathematicians," Crafoord Prize

Fields Medalist, 1982