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Robert Phelan Langlands is a Canadian and American mathematician, university teacher, and physicist. Born in New Westminster in 1936, he was educated at the University of British Columbia and Yale University, where he studied under Salomon Bochner. His professional career has included positions at Princeton University, Yale University, and the Institute for Advanced Study. Langlands is a member of the Royal Society, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Russian Academy of Sciences.
His work focuses on number theory, representation theory, and mathematics. Notable publications include *Base change for GL(2)*, *Automorphic Forms On Gl 2*, *On the Functional Equations Satisfied by Eisenstein Series*, *Euler products*, and *Les débuts d'une formule des traces stable*. He has received the Abel Prize, the Humboldt Prize, the Grand Prize of the French Academy of Science, and the title of Fellow of the Royal Society. Among his doctoral students are Diana Shelstad, Thomas Callister Hales, and James Arthur.
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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Robert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New Westminster
- Occupation
- physicist
- Employer
- Institute for Advanced Study
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Student of
- Salomon Bochner
- Field of work
- mathematics
- Image
- Langlands2.jpg
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- member of
- Royal Society of Canada
- date of birth
- 1936-10-06
- Commons category
- Robert Langlands
- Erdős number
- 2
- name in native language
- Robert Phelan Langlands
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- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Robert Phelan Langlands (/ˈlæŋləndz/; born October 6, 1936) is a Canadian mathematician. He is best known as the founder of the Langlands program, a vast web of conjectures and results connecting representation theory and automorphic forms to the study of Galois groups in number theory, for which he received the 2018 Abel Prize. He is emeritus professor and occupied Albert Einstein's office at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, until 2020 when he retired.
Early life and career
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