# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louis-de-branges-de-bourcia
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:21:50.507Z

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name: "Louis de Branges de Bourcia"
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description: "Louis de Branges de Bourcia is a French-American mathematician. He was the Edward C. Elliott Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, retiring in 2023. He is best known for proving the long-standing Bieberbach conjecture in 1984, now called de Branges's theorem. He claims to have proved several important conjectures in mathematics, including the generalized Riemann hypothesis."
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birthDate: "1932-08-21"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump