Published video “Representations of GL2”.
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Richard Borcherds
Richard Ewen Borcherds 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.
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Born 29 November 1959 · Q334010
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2024· 10 entries
Published video “Mordell-Weil theorem”.
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Published video “Selberg trace formula”.
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Published video “Riemann mapping theorem”.
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Published video “Vinberg lecture part 4. Automorphic forms”.
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Published video “Vinberg lecture part 3. Kac-Moody algebras”.
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Published video “Vinberg lecture part 2. The reflection group of II25,1”.
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Published video “Vinberg lecture part 1.Vinberg's algorithm”.
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Published video “Elliptic functions lecture 4. The sigma function”.
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Published video “Borwein integrals”.
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013).
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2012· 1 entry
Became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society, and in 2014 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences
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1998· 2 entries
Won Fields medal (1998).
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At the 23rd International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin, Germany he received the Fields Medal together with Maxim Kontsevich, William Timothy Gowers and Curtis T
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1994· 1 entry
Was elected to be a Fellow of the Royal Society
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1992· 2 entries
Awarded Whitehead Prize (1992).
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Borcherds was one of the first recipients of the EMS prizes awarded at the first European Congress of Mathematics in Paris, and in 1994 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich
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1985· 1 entry
Borcherds has held various alternating positions at Cambridge and the University of California, Berkeley, serving as Morrey assistant professor of mathematics at Berkeley from 1987 to 1988
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1984· 1 entry
Studied at University of Cambridge, Doctor of Philosophy (1984).
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1959· 1 entry
Born 1959-11-29.
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