Richard Taylor (mathematician)
Richard Lawrence Taylor ( born May 19, 1962) is a British mathematician who works in the field of number theory.
Curriculum vitae
He received his Ph.D. in 1988 at Princeton on the congruence of modular forms with Andrew Wiles. After that he went to Oxford. For some time he returned to Princeton to assist Wiles in the proof of Fermat's great theorem.
From 1995 to 1996, he was appointed to the Chair of Geometry Savilian Oxford University. After that, he was a professor at Harvard University. Since 2012 he is professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Working
In 1994-1995 he has Andrew Wiles assists in solving Fermat's last theorem. He was co-author of one of the two publications on the evidence.
Together with Michael Harris in 1998 he proved the local Langlands conjecture ( ie for local p- adic body ).
2001 FULL Taylor along with Christophe Breuil, Brian Conrad, Fred Diamond, and the proof of the Taniyama - Shimura conjecture. Part of the conjecture was proved by Wiles for his proof of Fermat's last theorem.
2008 and 2009, he announced the proof of the Sato -Tate conjecture ( by Mikio Sato and John T. Tate ) for specific elliptic curves, in collaboration with Laurent Clozel, Michael Harris and Nicholas Shepherd - Barron.
Awards
He was awarded the Ostrowski Prize in 2001 and was awarded the Fermat Prize. In 2002 he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM ) in Beijing ( Galois representations ) and 1994, he was invited speaker at the ICM in Zurich ( Representations of Galois groups associated to modular forms). In 2007 he was awarded the Shaw Prize and the Clay Research Award ( with Michael Harris for their work on local and global Galois representations ). In 2008 he gave a plenary lecture at the European Congress of Mathematicians in Amsterdam (The Sato -Tate Conjecture).