Tag Archives: Jean-Marc Fontaine

Clozel 70, Part II

Many years ago, Khare asked me (as I think he asked many others at the time) whether I believed their existed an irreducible motive M over \mathbf{Z} (so good reduction everywhere) with Hodge-Tate weights [0,1,2,\ldots,n-1] for any n > 1. … Continue reading

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En Passant VI

I just learnt (from a comment on this blog) that Pierre Colmez hosts a wonderful page on Fontaine and Wintenberger here. I particularly recommend reading both the personal recollections of their friends and collaborators (sample quote from Mark: These p-adic … Continue reading

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Jean-Marc Fontaine, 1944-2019

The results which generate the most buzz in mathematics are usually those which can be expressed in an elementary (or at least pithy) way to a general mathematical audience. It is certainly true that such results may be profound (see … Continue reading

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