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Richard Borcherds
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mathematician
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1813-05-22
- Active to
- 1883-02-13
Discography
- Siegfried. Fantaisie1927
- A Wagner Concert1944
- Tristan und Isolde1952
- Die Walkure, Act 31952
- Die Meistersinger von Nurnburg1952
- Die Walküre1955
- Prelude & Liebestod from "Tristan Und Isolde" / Dawn & Siegfried's Rhine Journey, Siegfried's Funeral Music from "Die Gotterdammerung"1955
- Munch Conducts Wagner1957
- Tristan et Isolde (Extraits)1957
- Das Rheingold1959
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 12
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
· 1977 · cited 61,783x
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 58,224x
- Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
· 2009 · cited 46,838x
- ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 46,287x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,720x
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Quotes
- “... if you take the s, we have a classification of them ... And then we've got a very simple explanation of why this list turns up, that they more or less correspond to finite reflection groups. And we know who to classify finite reflection groups. ... we can give single uniform construction of all the compact Lie groups. But there's nothing like that for the sporadic groups.”
- “(quote at 35:35 of 1:36:06 in video)”
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Key facts
- Born
- Richard Ewen Borcherds , ( 1959-11-29 ) 29 November 1959 (age 66) , Cape Town , South Africa
- Alma mater
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Known for
- Monstrous moonshine theory , Borcherds algebra , Vertex algebras
- Awards
- Whitehead Prize (1992) EMS Prize (1992) FRS (1994) Fields Medal (1998)
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- University of California, Berkeley University of Cambridge
- Thesis
- The leech lattice and other lattices (1984)
- Doctoral advisor
- John Horton Conway
- Doctoral students
- Daniel Allcock
- Website
- math .berkeley .edu /~reb
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- math.berkeley.edu/~reb
- Image
- Richard Borcherds.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1959-11-29
- Commons category
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- Erdős number
- 2
- name in native language
- Richard Ewen Borcherds
- social media followers
- 72000
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Article
Richard Ewen Borcherds (/ˈbɔːrtʃərdz/; born 29 November 1959) is a British mathematician currently working in quantum field theory. He is known for his work in lattices, group theory, and infinite-dimensional algebras, for which he was awarded the Fields Medal in 1998. He is well known for his proof of monstrous moonshine using ideas from string theory.
Early life and education