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Richard Borcherds
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mathematician
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Richard Ewen Borcherds is a mathematician and university teacher born in Cape Town in 1959. He works in group theory, number theory, geometry, and quantum field theory. Borcherds holds citizenship in the United Kingdom and the United States and resides in the United Kingdom. He is employed by the University of California, Berkeley.
He received his education at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, under doctoral advisor John Horton Conway. Borcherds participated in the International Mathematical Olympiad and has an Erdős number of 2. His awards include the Fields medal, the Whitehead Prize, and the title of Fellow of the Royal Society. He is a member of the Royal Society, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Mathematical Society. He speaks English.
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Key facts
- Born
- Richard Ewen Borcherds , ( 1959-11-29 ) 29 November 1959 (age 66) , Cape Town , South Africa
- Alma mater
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Known for
- Monstrous moonshine theory , Borcherds algebra , Vertex algebras
- Awards
- Whitehead Prize (1992) EMS Prize (1992) FRS (1994) Fields Medal (1998)
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- University of California, Berkeley University of Cambridge
- Thesis
- The leech lattice and other lattices (1984)
- Doctoral advisor
- John Horton Conway
- Doctoral students
- Daniel Allcock
- Website
- math .berkeley .edu /~reb
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Richard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Cape Town
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- University of Cambridge
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- International Mathematical Olympiad
- Doctoral advisor
- John Horton Conway
- Field of work
- group theory
- Official website
- math.berkeley.edu/~reb
- Image
- Richard Borcherds.jpg
- Residence
- United Kingdom
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- member of
- American Mathematical Society
- date of birth
- 1959-11-29
- Commons category
- Richard Borcherds
- Erdős number
- 2
- name in native language
- Richard Ewen Borcherds
- social media followers
- 72000
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Richard Ewen Borcherds (/ˈbɔːrtʃərdz/; born 29 November 1959) is a British mathematician currently working in quantum field theory. He is known for his work in lattices, group theory, and infinite-dimensional algebras, 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.
Early life and education
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