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John Torrence Tate (1925–2019) was an American mathematician and university teacher specializing in number theory. Born in Minneapolis, he was educated at Princeton University and Harvard University. His academic career included teaching positions at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, Princeton University, and Columbia University.
Tate received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Abel Prize, and the Wolf Prize in Mathematics. He is associated with the Tate conjecture, the Birch–Tate conjecture, and the Tate–Shafarevich group. He served as the doctoral advisor for Benedict Gross, Carl Pomerance, Bernard Dwork, and Andrew Ogg.
A member of the French Academy of Sciences, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Tate died in Lexington. He held an Erdős number of 3 and was a student of Emil Artin.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Tate
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Minneapolis
- Place of death
- Lexington
- Occupation
- mathematician
- Employer
- Princeton University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Emil Artin
- Field of work
- mathematics
- Image
- John Tate.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1925-03-13
- member of
- American Mathematical Society
- Commons category
- John Tate
- Erdős number
- 3
- name in native language
- John Torrence Tate
- date of death
- 2019-10-16
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- interested in
- mathematics
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