James Arthur (mathematician)

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James Greig Arthur (born May 18, 1944 in Hamilton , Ontario ) is a Canadian mathematician who created one of the most important tools for following the Langlands program with the generalization of Selberg's trace formula to any semi-simple groups .

James Arthur studied at the University of Toronto and did his PhD in 1970 with Robert Langlands at Yale ( Analysis of tempered distributions of semisimple Lie groups of real rank 1 ). He taught as an instructor at Princeton University , was an assistant professor at Yale University and a professor at Duke University in the 1970s, and was professor at the University of Toronto since 1978. In 1976/77 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study .

In 1998 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin ( Towards a stable trace formula ) and in 1983 in Warsaw ( The trace formula for noncompact quotient ). In 1976/77 he was a Sloan Research Fellow . He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003), the Royal Society of Canada (1980) and the Royal Society (1992). From 1975 to 1977 he was also a Guggenheim Fellow (2000). In 2002 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Ottawa . In 1998 he held the Aisenstadt Chair at CRM at the University of Montreal , in 2001 he held the Whittmore Lectures at Yale and in 1993 he was Jeffrey-Williams Lecturer at the Canadian Mathematical Society .

In 1999 he received the Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering , in 1987 the Synge Award from the Royal Society of Canada and in 1997 the CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize . In 1982 he was an EWR Steacie Fellow . In 1999 he received the Faculty Award of Excellence from the University of Toronto, in 2003 the G. de B. Robinson Award A note on the automorphic Langlands group , in which he addresses a conjecture by Langlands about the existence of an extension of the universal Galois group in the theory of automorphic forms and presents a possible candidate for this group as well as a candidate for the complexification of Grothendieck's motivic Galois group. In 2005/06 he was the successor to David Eisenbud as President of the American Mathematical Society .

Arthur was selected as plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2014 in Seoul (L-functions and automorphic representations). Also in 2014 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences as a foreign member . In 2015 he was awarded the Wolf Prize for Mathematics. For 2017 he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the American Mathematical Society.

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  1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ Canadian Mathematical Bulletin, 45, 2002, 466-482
  3. ↑ Laudation, pdf
  4. ^ National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected. ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release from the National Academy of Sciences (nasonline.org) dated April 29, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nasonline.org
personal data
SURNAME Arthur, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arthur, James Greig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamilton , Ontario