James Arthur (mathematician)
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James Greig Arthur CC FRSC FRS (born May 18, 1944)[1] is a Canadian mathematician working on automorphic forms, and former President of the American Mathematical Society. He is a Mossman Chair and University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto Department of Mathematics.[2]
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James Arthur | |
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Born | (1944-05-18) May 18, 1944 (age 79) Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
Alma mater | University of Toronto (BSc, MSc) Yale University (PhD) |
Known for | Arthur–Selberg trace formula Arthur conjectures |
Awards | John L. Synge Award (1987) Jeffery–Williams Prize (1993) CRM-Fields-PIMS prize (1997) Henry Marshall Tory Medal (1997) Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering (1999) Wolf Prize (2015) Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2017) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Yale University Duke University University of Toronto |
Thesis | Analysis of Tempered Distributions on Semisimple Lie Groups of Real Rank One (1970) |
Doctoral advisor | Robert Langlands |
Doctoral students | Cristina Ballantine |
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