Mathematician:Robert Phelan Langlands
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Mathematician
Canadian mathematician mainly working in number theory and representation theory.
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.
Wolf Prize
Robert Phelan Langlands was awarded a Wolf Prize for Mathematics in $\text {1995/96}$:
- For his path-blazing work and extraordinary insight in the fields of number theory, automorphic forms and group representation.
Abel Prize
Robert Phelan Langlands was awarded an Abel Prize in $\text {2018}$:
- For his visionary program connecting representation theory to number theory.
Nationality
Canadian
History
- Born: 6 October 1936 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Theorems and Definitions
- Langlands Conjectures
- Deligne-Langlands Conjecture (with Pierre René Deligne)
- Langlands Reciprocity Conjecture
- Langlands Functionality Principle Theory
- Langlands-Tunnell Theorem (with Jerrold Bates Tunnell)
- Langlands Program
- Langlands Classification
- Langlands Decomposition
- Langlands-Deligne Local Constant (with Pierre René Deligne)
- Langlands Dual
- Langlands Group
Publications
- 1967: Euler Products
- 1976: On the Functional Equations Satisfied by Eisenstein Series
- 1980: Base Change for $\GL 2$
Sources
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Robert Phelan Langlands": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Langlands, Robert (1936- )