Jean-Marc Fontaine

Jean-Marc Fontaine (13 March 1944 – 29 January 2019) was a French mathematician. He was one of the founders of p-adic Hodge theory. He was a professor at Paris-Sud 11 University from 1988 to his death. He was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.

In 1984 he received the Prix Carrière from the French Academy of Sciences. Beginning in 2002 he was a member of the French Academy of Sciences. In 2014 he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea.

Fontaine died on 29 January 2019 in Paris from thyroid cancer at the age of 74.Décès de Jean-Marc Fontaine 

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