Robert Langlands

Robert Langlands
Born (1936-10-06) October 6, 1936 (age 90)
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
NationalityCanadian/American
Alma materUniversity of British Columbia,
Yale University
Known forLanglands program
AwardsJeffery–Williams Prize (1980)
Cole Prize (1982)
Wolf Prize (1995–96)
Steele Prize (2005)
Nemmers Prize (2006)
Shaw Prize (2007)
Abel Prize (2018)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsPrinceton University,
Yale University,
Institute for Advanced Study
Doctoral advisorCassius Ionescu-Tulcea
Doctoral studentsJames Arthur
Thomas Callister Hales
Diana Shelstad

Robert Phelan Langlands (/ˈlæŋləndz/; born October 6, 1936) is a Canadian mathematician. He is best known as the founder of the Langlands program that results connecting representation theory and automorphic forms to the study of Galois groups in number theory, for which he received the 2018 Abel Prize.

He is an emeritus professor and occupies Albert Einstein's office at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

References

  1. ↑ "Robert Langlands". www.nasonline.org. Archived from the original on 2018-12-30. Retrieved 2018-03-20.
  2. ↑ "The Canadian who Reinvented Mathematics", Toronto Star, March 27, 2015.
  3. ↑ D Mackenzie (2000) Fermat's Last Theorem's First Cousin, Science 287(5454), 792-793.
  4. ↑ Edward Frenkel (2013). "preface". Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0465050741. Archived from the original on 2015-04-06. Robert Langlands, the mathematician who currently occupies Albert Einstein's office at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton