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Robert Langlands
Robert Phelan Langlands 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 Pri…
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Born 6 October 1936 · Q711278
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Langlands was honoured at Semiahmoo Secondary, which installed a mural to celebrate his contributions to mathematics
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2019· 1 entry
Langlands was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada
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2018· 2 entries
Awarded Abel Prize (2018).
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Langlands was awarded the Abel Prize for "his visionary program connecting representation theory to number theory"
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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
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences (2007).
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Nemmers Prize in Mathematics (2006).
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research (2005).
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2003· 1 entry
Langlands received a doctorate honoris causa from Université Laval
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate at the Laval University (2002).
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Prize of the French Academy of Science (2000).
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1996).
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1995· 1 entry
Langlands started a collaboration with Bill Casselman at the University of British Columbia with the aim of posting nearly all of his writings—including publications, preprints, as well as selected correspondence—on the
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1993· 1 entry
And a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2004
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Paris-VII (1989).
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in Mathematics (1988).
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1975· 1 entry
Won Wilbur Cross Medal (1975).
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1972· 2 entries
And became professor emeritus in January 2007
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And a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1981
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1967· 1 entry
“There was evidence that these L-functions were good but that they would have these consequences for algebraic number theory was by no means certain.”
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1945· 1 entry
His family moved to White Rock, near the US border, where his parents had a building supply and construction business
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1936· 2 entries
Born 1936-10-06.
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To Robert Langlands and Kathleen J Phelan
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