Pierre Colmez


Pierre Colmez is a French mathematician, notable for his work on p-adic analysis.
Colmez studied at École Normale Supérieure and obtained his doctorate from Grenoble University. He won the 2005 Fermat Prize for his contributions to the study of L-functions and p-adic Galois representations.
In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. With Jean-Pierre Serre he edited the Correspondance Grothendieck-Serre .
Colmez has won the French Go championship four times.

Personal life

Pierre Colmez and Leila Schneps are the parents of Coralie Colmez.