Vladimir Drin'feld Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Vladimir Gershonovich Drin'feld is a mathematician born February 14, 1954 in Ukraine.He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1990, and is currently the Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.
He is known for work in number theory and other fields; in particular for his proof of the substantive part of the Langlands program for GL2 of a function field of an algebraic curve over a finite field, this being the first major non-abelian case over a global field that was known.
See also: Drin'feld module, Drin'feld moduli problem, Grothendieck-Teichmüller group.