Jean-Christophe Yoccoz

* May 29, 1957, Paris, France
✝ September 3, 2016, Paris, France



Fields Medal - 1994

For his fundamental work in Dynamical Systems, especially in the theory of circle maps and the theory of smooth centralizers of diffeomorphisms, as well as his groundbreaking contribution to the MLC (Mandelbrot Local Connectivity) conjecture.