Robert Langlands
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Robert Phelan Langlands (/ˈlæŋləndz/; born October 6, 1936) is an American-Canadian[1] mathematician. He is best known as the founder of the Langlands program that results connecting representation theory and automorphic forms to the study of Galois groups in number theory,[2][3] for which he received the 2018 Abel Prize.
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Robert Langlands | |
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Born | (1936-10-06) October 6, 1936 (age 87) |
Nationality | Canadian/American |
Alma mater | University of British Columbia, Yale University |
Known for | Langlands program |
Awards | Jeffery–Williams Prize (1980) Cole Prize (1982) Wolf Prize (1995–96) Steele Prize (2005) Nemmers Prize (2006) Shaw Prize (2007) Abel Prize (2018) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Princeton University, Yale University, Institute for Advanced Study |
Doctoral advisor | Cassius Ionescu-Tulcea |
Doctoral students | James Arthur Thomas Callister Hales Diana Shelstad |
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He is an emeritus professor and occupies Albert Einstein's office at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.[4]