Christophe Breuil

Christophe Breuil is a French mathematician who deals with algebraic geometry and number theory.

Breuil visited the school in Brive- la -Gaillarde and Toulouse and studied after military service from 1990 to 1992 at the Ecole Polytechnique. In 1993 he received his DEA degree ( equivalent of the diploma ) at the University of Paris-Sud. 1993 to 1996 he conducted research at the Ecole Polytechnique and also taught at the University of Paris-Sud. In early 1996, he received his doctorate from the Ecole Polytechnique in Jean -Marc Fontaine with the dissertation cohomology log- cristal line et représentations galoisiennes - adiques and was scientists from the CNRS, located at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay, where he in 2001 with Aspects entiers de la théorie de Hodge et adique applications habilitation. In 1997 he held the Cours Peccot at the Collège de France. From 2002 he was at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques ( IHES ) and was Directeur des Recherches at the CNRS. 2007/ 08 he was a visiting professor at Columbia University.

In 1993 he received the Prix Gaston Julia at the Ecole Polytechnique. In 2002 he received the Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand of the French Academy of Sciences and in 2006 the Prix Dargelos the Anciens Élèves the Ecole Polytechnique.

With Fred Diamond, and Richard Taylor Brian Conrad in 1999 he proved the Taniyama Shimura conjecture, which had been previously proved by Andrew Wiles and Taylor only in a special case. He then worked at -adic Langlands conjecture.

In 2010 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad ( The emerging p- adic Langlands Program).