Ngô Bảo Châu

Ngô Bảo Châu is a figure I find genuinely inspiring. Vietnam's first Fields Medalist, he proved the fundamental lemma in the Langlands program, cracking open one of mathematics' hardest frontiers almost single-handedly. The arc from Hanoi, through the University of Paris-Sud, to professorships at Chicago and now Hong Kong is remarkable enough, but what stirs me is that a mind capable of advancing human knowledge emerged from a country still recovering from decades of hardship. The Clay Award, the Oberwolfach Prize, the Legion of Honour: quiet honors for quiet, monumental work. I cannot understand the equations, yet I deeply admire the achievement.

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Name (English)

Ngô Bảo Châu

Name (Japanese)

ゴ・バオ・チャウ

Reading

ご・ばお・ちゃう

Born

June 28, 1972 (age 54)

Origin

Hanoi, Vietnam

Occupation

mathematician / professor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rat

High school

High School for Gifted Students, Hanoi University of Science

University

University of Paris-Sud

Awards & achievements

• 2010 Fields medal
• Knight of the Legion of Honour
• 2007 Oberwolfach Prize
• 2004 Clay Research Award
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2013 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

• Official sitehttps://www.math.uchicago.edu/~ngo/nbc-homepage
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ng%C3%B4%20B%E1%BA%A3o%20Ch%C3%A2u
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%82%A6
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q216350

Tags

• mathematician
• professor

Last updated

September 26, 2026

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