James Arthur (mathematician)

James Arthur
CC
Born (1944-05-18) May 18, 1944 (age 80)
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Alma materUniversity of Toronto (BSc, MSc)
Yale University (PhD)
Known forArthur–Selberg trace formula
Arthur conjectures
AwardsJohn L. Synge Award (1987)
Jeffery–Williams Prize (1993)
CRM-Fields-PIMS prize (1997)
Henry Marshall Tory Medal (1997)
Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering (1999)
Wolf Prize (2015)
Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsYale University
Duke University
University of Toronto
Thesis Analysis of Tempered Distributions on Semisimple Lie Groups of Real Rank One  (1970)
Doctoral advisorRobert Langlands
Doctoral studentsCristina Ballantine

James Greig Arthur CC FRSC FRS (born May 18, 1944)[1] is a Canadian mathematician working on automorphic forms, and former President of the American Mathematical Society. He is a Mossman Chair and University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto Department of Mathematics.[2]

  1. ^ "James Greig Arthur". International Mathematical Union. Archived from the original on August 15, 2011. Retrieved April 25, 2011.
  2. ^ "Arthur, James". University of Toronto Department of Mathematics. Retrieved April 21, 2024.