Richard Borcherds | |
|---|---|
 Borcherds in 1993 | |
| Born | Richard Ewen Borcherds 29 November 1959[2] Cape Town, South Africa |
| Nationality | British[3] |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Known for | Borcherds algebra |
| Awards |
|
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | The leech lattice and other lattices (1984) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Horton Conway[1] |
| Doctoral students | Daniel Allcock[1] |
| Website | math |
Richard Ewen Borcherds (/ˈbɔːrtʃərdz/; born 29 November 1959)[2] is a British[4] mathematician currently working in quantum field theory. He is known for his work in lattices, group theory, and infinite-dimensional algebras,[5][6] for which he was awarded the Fields Medal in 1998. He is well known for his proof of monstrous moonshine using ideas from string theory.
- ^ a b Richard Borcherds at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b "BORCHERDS, Prof. Richard Ewen". Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
- ^ Goddard, Peter (1998). "The work of Richard Ewen Borcherds". Documenta Mathematica: 99–108. arXiv:math/9808136. Bibcode:1998math......8136G. ISSN 1431-0635..
- ^ "Richard Borcherds".
- ^ James Lepowsky, "The Work of Richard Borcherds", Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 46, Number 1 (January 1999).
- ^ Borcherds, Richard E. (1998). "What is moonshine?". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. I. pp. 607–616.