Robert Langlands

Quotes

• “Although there are at present many occupations that require a good deal of skill and training in advanced mathematics, mathematics itself is still often regarded as a curious profession demanding singular talents and a singular personality.”
• “Mathematical maturity is anyhow an uncertain concept, for the mind’s natural competence seems to change with age, its purview variable.”
• “What I have achieved has been largely a matter of chance. Many problems I thought about at length with no success. With other problems, there was the inspiration—indeed, some that astound me today. Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and of pretense, and indifferent to the world.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1936-10-06 ) October 6, 1936 (age 89) , New Westminster , British Columbia, Canada

Education

University of British Columbia ( BSc , MSc ), Yale University ( PhD )

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), Order of Canada (2019)

Fields

Mathematics

Institutions

Princeton 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 advisor

Cassius Ionescu-Tulcea

Doctoral students

James Arthur , Thomas Callister Hales , Diana Shelstad

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