塞爾日·蘭(法語:Serge Lang,1927年5月19日—2005年9月12日)是美國數學家。
生平
他在1951年由埃米爾·阿廷指導,獲得普林斯頓大學的博士學位[1][2]。
因他在代數的工作和他編寫的多本教科書(包括影響頗大的《代數》)而聞名。他的教科書定位於純數學,以習題原創聞名。根據一個1970年代在普林斯頓大學數學社群流傳的逸聞,他的教科書至少一本是因為打賭而在一個周末寫成[來源請求]。他是布爾巴基小組成員。他逝世時是耶魯大學的數學榮譽教授。
因闡釋數學獲得的獎項
蘭教授給人的印象是熱心與學生交流。耶魯大學的許多學生都認為他是世界上最偉大的數學教師之一。他曾獲美國數學學會的斯蒂爾數學解說獎 (1999)。在1960年,他憑藉論文Unramified class field theory over function fields in several variables (Annals of Mathematics, Series 2, volume 64 (1956), pp. 285–325) 獲得第六屆柯爾代數獎。
行動主義
他除了是數學家,也花很多時間參與政治。最為人注意的是,他認為有人為了達到他們目的錯用科學或數學,他會揭露出來。1986年他質疑政治科學家塞繆爾·P·亨廷頓的美國國家科學院院士提名,聲稱他的研究含有「偽裝成科學的政治意見」。蘭的質疑最終成功了。
蘭把他的政治通信「存檔」,一部分在他的書《Challenges》(ISBN 0-387-94861-9)出版。後來蘭把他的質疑伸延到人文學科。例如,他和耶魯大學爭論聘請科學史學家Daniel Kevles的決定,因為他不同意Kevles在他的書《The Baltimore Case》中的分析。
他的愛滋病異見者身份是他最具爭議的政治立場;他堅持認為,愛滋病由HIV引起的普遍看法,沒有充分實驗支持,但因為政治或商業原因,質問這種看法而作的進一步實驗遭到壓制。他很公開強調這一點。
書目列表
- Introduction to Algebraic Geometry (1958)[3]
- Abelian Varieties (1959)
- Diophantine Geometry (1962)[4][5]
- Introduction To Differentiable Manifolds (1962)[6]
- A First Course in Calculus (1964), as Short Calculus (2001)
- Algebraic Numbers (1964)
- A Second Course in Calculus (Addison-Wesley, 1965)[7][8][9] ASIN B0007DW0KS
- Algebra (1965) and many later editions
- Algebraic Structures (1966)
- Introduction to Diophantine Approximations (1966)
- Introduction to Transcendental Numbers (1966)
- Linear Algebra (1966)
- Rapport sur la Cohomologie des Groupes (1966)[10] as Topics in Cohomology of Groups (1986)
- A Complete Course in Calculus (1968)
- Analysis I (1968)
- Analysis II (1969)
- Real Analysis (1969)
- Algebraic Number Theory (1970)[11]
- Introduction To Linear Algebra (1970)
- Basic Mathematics (1971)
- Differential Manifolds (1972)
- Introduction to Algebraic and Abelian Functions (1972)
- Calculus of Several Variables (1973)
- Elliptic Functions (1973)[12]
- SL2(R) (1975)[13]
- Introduction to Modular Forms (1976)[14]
- Complex Analysis (1977)
- Cyclotomic Fields (1978)
- Elliptic Curves: Diophantine Analysis (1978)[15]
- Modular Units (1981) with Dan Kubert
- The File: Case Study in Correction 1977–1979 (1981)
- Undergraduate Analysis (1983)
- Complex Multiplication (1983)
- Fundamentals Of Diophantine Geometry (1983)
- The Beauty of Doing Mathematics: Three Public Dialogues (1985)
- Math!: Encounters with High School Students (1985)
- Riemann-Roch Algebra (1985) with William Fulton
- Introduction To Complex Hyperbolic Spaces (1987)[16]
- Geometry (1988)
- Introduction to Arakelov Theory (1988)[17]
- Cyclotomic Fields II (1989)
- Undergraduate Algebra (1990)
- Real and Functional Analysis (1993)
- Differential and Riemannian Manifolds (1995)
- Basic Analysis of Regularized Series and Products (1993) with Jay Jorgenson
- Challenges (1997)
- Survey On Diophantine Geometry (1997)
- Fundamentals of Differential Geometry (1999)
- Math Talks for Undergraduates (1999)
- Problems and Solutions for Complex Analysis (1999) with Rami Shakarchi
- Collected Papers I: 1952–1970 (2000)
- Collected Papers II: 1971–1977 (2000)
- Collected Papers III: 1978–1990 (2000)
- Collected Papers IV: 1990–1996 (2000)
- Collected Papers V: 1993–1999 (Springer, 2000) ISBN 978-0387950303
- Spherical Inversion on SLn(R) (2001) with Jay Jorgenson[18]
- Posn(R) and Eisenstein Series (2005) with Jay Jorgenson
- The Heat Kernel and Theta Inversion on SL2(C) (2008) with Jay Jorgenson
- Heat Eisenstein series on SLn(C) (2009) with Jay Jorgenson
註釋
外部連結
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