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Nick Katz
Nick Katz (Nicholas M. Katz) is an American mathematician, working in the fields of algebraic geometry, particularly on p-adic methods , monodromy and moduli problems, and number theory. He is from Chicago. He is currently the Chair of Princeton University's Mathematics Department.
He was a student of Bernard Dwork, and then spent time in France, at IHES and Orsay , where he adapted methods of scheme theory and category theory to the theory of modular forms. Subsequently he has applied geometric methods to various exponential sums.
He played a significant role as a sounding-board for Andrew Wiles, when Wiles was developing in secret his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
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