Gérard Laumon (; 1952 – 4 October 2025) was a French mathematician working in number theory and the Langlands program.
Background Laumon was born in 1952. He studied at the École Normale Supérieure and Paris-Sud 11 University, Orsay. Laumon died on 4 October 2025.Décès de Gérard Laumon Décès de Gérard Laumon
Work In 1987, Vladimir Drinfeld and Laumon formulated the geometric Langlands conjecture for general linear groups over a function field .
In 2008, Laumon and Ngô Bảo Châu proved the fundamental lemma for unitary groups, a component in the Langlands program in number theory.
Awards Laumon was awarded the Silver Medal of the CNRS in 1987, the E. Dechelle prize of the French Academy of the Sciences in 1992, and the Clay Research Award in 2004. Laumon and Ngô received the Clay Research Award for the proof of the fundamental lemma for unitary groups, a component in the Langlands program in number theory, in 2004.
In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 27 January 2013.
References
External links Laumon's CMI lecture Audio recording on a lecture at the Field Institute titled "On the fundamental lemma for unitary groups"