Robert Langlands
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Robert Phelan Langlands, CC FRS FRSC (/ˈlæŋləndz/; born October 6, 1936) is a Canadian mathematician.[1][2] He is best known as the founder of the Langlands program, a vast web of conjectures and results connecting representation theory and automorphic forms to the study of Galois groups in number theory,[3][4] for which he received the 2018 Abel Prize. He was an emeritus professor and occupied Albert Einstein's office at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, until 2020 when he retired.[5]
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Born | (1936-10-06) October 6, 1936 (age 87) New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada |
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Nationality | Canadian/American |
Alma mater | University of British Columbia, Yale University |
Known for | Langlands program |
Awards | Jeffery–Williams Prize (1980) Cole Prize (1982) Wolf Prize (1995–96) Steele Prize (2005) Nemmers Prize (2006) Shaw Prize (2007) Abel Prize (2018) Order of Canada (2019) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Princeton University, Middle East Technical University, University of California, Berkeley, Yale University, Institute for Advanced Study |
Thesis | Semi-Groups and Representations of Lie Groups (1960) |
Doctoral advisor | Cassius Ionescu-Tulcea |
Doctoral students | James Arthur Thomas Callister Hales Diana Shelstad |
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