Congratulations Professor Ngo Bao Chau recipient of the noblest world maths prize

The Fields prize was first presented in 1936. Since then, 52 mathematicians were honoured to receive this prize, including 14 from the U.S, 10 France, 6 Russia and 3 the Soviet  Union, 5 Britain, 3 Japan, 3 Belgium, and one from Australia, Germany, Israel, Italy, Norway, New Zealand, Finland, Sweden and Vietnam. It is a source of pride that the word “Vietnam” is in the honourable list.

Ngo Bao Chau was born in 1972 in Hanoi. He obtained two gold medals at the international Olympiads on Maths in 1988 and 1989. His secondary education was from a department which specialized in Maths under the Hanoi National University – College of Natural Sciences in 1989, he was given a scholarship to study at Pierre and Marie Curie university (Paris VI). In 1992, he placed first in the entrance exam to Ecole Normale Supérieure, a famous university in France, the institution that provides training for many great scientists in France and in the world. From 1998 to 2004, he worked as a researcher at the National Center for Scientific Studies of France. In 2005, he became a professor of the University of Paris 11. Also in 2005, he was recognized as a professor by the Vietnam State Council for the Title Professor according to the Institute for Maths under the Vietnam Academy of Sciences and Technology, where he maintains a close relationship. Since 2007, he has been working for the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, the U.S. And since September 2010, he has also been working as professor of Chicago University.

Translated by Tuyet Nhung
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