Robert Langlands
Robert Phelan Langlands ( born October 6, 1936 in New Westminster, British Columbia) is a Canadian mathematician, known by the initiated by him Langlands program.
Langlands studied at the University of British Columbia, where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1957 and 1958, his master's degree. In 1960 he received his doctorate from Yale University with Cassius Ionescu Tulcea (Semi -groups and representations of Lie groups). He was then at Princeton University and Yale University. Since 1972 he is professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he was in 1962 /63.
Langlands worked on automorphic forms and representation theory of linear groups in these forms, and their relationships with the theory of numbers and their functions, which he organized a wide -reaching assumptions ( Langlands program). He also dealt with percolation theory.
Langlands was 1975, the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal from the Yale University, 1982, Cole Price, in 1988 the first NAS Award in Mathematics, the 1996 Wolf Prize, the 2005 Leroy P. Steele Prize of the American Mathematical Society, 2006 Nemmers Prize for Mathematics and 2007, the Shaw Prize. In 1985 he became an honorary doctorate from the University of British Columbia. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada. In 1978 he gave a plenary lecture at the ICM in Helsinki (L- Functions and Automorphic Representations ) and in 1970 he was invited speaker at the ICM in Nice ( Automorphic forms on GL ( 2) ).
He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Among His doctoral include James Arthur, Diana Shelstad, Thomas Hales and Jonathan Rogawski.
Writings
- Hervé Jacquet Automorphic forms on GL ( 2), 2 volumes, Springer Verlag, 1970, 1972
- Base change for GL ( 2), Princeton University Press 1980
- Euler products, Yale University Press 1971
- On the functional equations satisfied by Eisenstein series, Springer Verlag 1976