Robert Langlands

Robert Langlands
CC FRS FRSC
Born (1936-10-06) October 6, 1936 (age 88)
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
NationalityCanadian/American
Alma materUniversity of British Columbia (BSc, MSc)
Yale University (PhD)
Known forLanglands program
AwardsJeffery–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
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsPrinceton 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 advisorCassius Ionescu-Tulcea
Doctoral studentsJames Arthur
Thomas Callister Hales
Diana Shelstad

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 is emeritus professor and occupied Albert Einstein's office at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, until 2020 when he retired.[5]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference TG was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Robert Phelan Langlands". NAS. Retrieved March 26, 2018.
  3. ^ Contento, Sandro (March 27, 2015), "The Canadian Who Reinvented Mathematics", Toronto Star
  4. ^ D Mackenzie (2000) Fermat's Last Theorem's First Cousin, Science 287(5454), 792–793.
  5. ^ Edward Frenkel (2013). "preface". Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-05074-1. Robert Langlands, the mathematician who currently occupies Albert Einstein's office at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton