Robert Phelan Langlands (born October 6, 1936 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada) is an emeritus professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. His work in automorphic forms and representation theory had a major effect on number theory.
Langlands received an undergraduate degree from the University of British Columbia in 1957, and continued on there to receive an M. Sc. in 1958. He then went to Yale University where he received a Ph.D. ...
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Robert Phelan Langlands (born October 6, 1936 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada) is an emeritus professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. His work in automorphic forms and representation theory had a major effect on number theory.
Langlands received an undergraduate degree from the University of British Columbia in 1957, and continued on there to receive an M. Sc. in 1958. He then went to Yale University where he received a Ph.D. in 1960. His academic positions since then include the years 1960-67 at Princeton University, ending up as Associate Professor, and the years 1967-72 at Yale University. He was appointed Herman Weyl Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1972, becoming Professor Emeritus in January 2007.
His Ph.D. thesis was on the analytical theory of semi-groups, but he moved soon into representation theory, adapting the methods of Harish-Chandra to the theory of automorphic forms. His first accomplishment in this field was a formula for the...
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