Robert Langlands
Robert Phelan Langlands (born October 6, 1936 in New Westminster , British Columbia ) is a Canadian mathematician , best known for the Langlands program he initiated .
Langlands studied at the University of British Columbia , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1957 and his master's degree in 1958. In 1960 he received his doctorate from Yale University under Cassius Ionescu-Tulcea (Semi-groups and representations of Lie groups). He was then at Princeton University and Yale University. Since 1972 he has been a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton , where he was already 1962/63.
Langlands worked on automorphic forms and the theory of representation of linear groups in these forms as well as their connections with number theory and its L-functions , about which he made extensive assumptions ( Langlands program ). He also dealt with the percolation theory .
In 1970 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Nice (Automorphic forms on GL (2)) and in 1978 he gave a plenary lecture at the ICM in Helsinki (L-Functions and Automorphic Representations).
Langlands received the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal from Yale University in 1975 , the Cole Prize in 1982 , the first NAS Award in Mathematics in 1988 , the Wolf Prize in 1996 , the Grande médaille de l'Académie des sciences in 2000 , and the Leroy P. Steele in 2005 prize of the American mathematical Society , the 2006 Nemmers prize in Mathematics and the 2007 Shaw prize . Langlands was awarded the Abel Prize in 2018 .
In 1985 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of British Columbia. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and has been an external member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 2011 .
In 1964 he received a research grant ( Sloan Research Fellowship ) from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation . He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society . In 1990 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1993 to the National Academy of Sciences and in 2004 to the American Philosophical Society .
His PhD students include James Arthur , Diana Shelstad , Thomas Hales and Jonathan Rogawski .
Fonts
- With Hervé Jacquet : Automorphic forms on GL (2). 2 volumes, Springer Verlag, 1970, 1972.
- Base change for GL (2). Princeton University Press, 1980.
- Euler products. Yale University Press, 1971.
- On the functional equations satisfied by the Eisenstein series. Springer Verlag, 1976.
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Robert Langlands. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
- The Work of Robert Langlands.
- Interview with Langlands , Notices AMS, 2019, No. 4 (pdf)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Robert Langlands in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Langlands, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Langlands, Robert P .; Langlands, Robert Phelan (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 6, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Westminster , British Columbia |