Richard Taylor (mathematician)
British mathematician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the Canadian Nobel Prize in Physics laureate, see Richard E. Taylor.
For the American Confederate general, see Richard Taylor (general).
Richard Lawrence Taylor (born 19 May 1962) is a British mathematician. He works in number theory. He was a former research student of Andrew Wiles. He returned to Princeton to help Wiles complete the proof of Fermat's last theorem.
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Born | (1962-05-19) 19 May 1962 (age 62) |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | Princeton University Clare College, Cambridge |
Awards | Whitehead Prize (1990) Fermat Prize (2001) Ostrowski Prize (2001) Cole Prize (2002) Shaw Prize (2007) |
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Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Harvard University |
Doctoral advisor | Andrew Wiles |
Doctoral students | Kevin Buzzard Ana Caraiani Ashley Jarvis David Savitt |
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Taylor received the 2007 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences. This for his work on the Langlands program. He did this work with Robert Langlands.