塞尔日·兰(法语:Serge Lang,1927年5月19日—2005年9月12日)是美国数学家。
生平
他在1951年由埃米尔·阿廷指导,获得普林斯顿大学的博士学位[1][2]。
因他在代数的工作和他编写的多本教科书(包括影响颇大的《代数》)而闻名。他的教科书定位于纯数学,以习题原创闻名。根据一个1970年代在普林斯顿大学数学社群流传的逸闻,他的教科书至少一本是因为打赌而在一个周末写成[来源请求]。他是布尔巴基小组成员。他逝世时是耶鲁大学的数学荣誉教授。
因阐释数学获得的奖项
兰教授给人的印象是热心与学生交流。耶鲁大学的许多学生都认为他是世界上最伟大的数学教师之一。他曾获美国数学学会的斯蒂尔数学解说奖 (1999)。在1960年,他凭借论文Unramified class field theory over function fields in several variables (Annals of Mathematics, Series 2, volume 64 (1956), pp. 285–325) 获得第六届柯尔代数奖。
行动主义
他除了是数学家,也花很多时间参与政治。最为人注意的是,他认为有人为了达到他们目的错用科学或数学,他会揭露出来。1986年他质疑政治科学家塞缪尔·P·亨廷顿的美国国家科学院院士提名,声称他的研究含有“伪装成科学的政治意见”。兰的质疑最终成功了。
兰把他的政治通信“存档”,一部分在他的书《Challenges》(ISBN 0-387-94861-9)出版。后来兰把他的质疑伸延到人文学科。例如,他和耶鲁大学争论聘请科学史学家Daniel Kevles的决定,因为他不同意Kevles在他的书《The Baltimore Case》中的分析。
他的艾滋病异见者身份是他最具争议的政治立场;他坚持认为,艾滋病由HIV引起的普遍看法,没有充分实验支持,但因为政治或商业原因,质问这种看法而作的进一步实验遭到压制。他很公开强调这一点。
书目列表
- 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
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