Robert Langlands

Also known as Robert Phelan Langlands

Canadian mathematician

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Born: 1936
Works: 10

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Les débuts d'une formule des traces stable
Base change for GL(2)
Automorphic Forms On Gl 2
On the Functional Equations Satisfied by Eisenstein Series
Euler products

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Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density
· 1988 · cited 94,967x
Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation
· 2011 · cited 55,890x
Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 45,564x
Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso
· 1996 · cited 38,950x
The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 38,345x

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Quotes

“Although there are at present many occupations that require a good deal of skill and training in advanced mathematics, mathematics itself is still often regarded as a curious profession demanding singular talents and a singular personality.”
“Mathematical maturity is anyhow an uncertain concept, for the mind’s natural competence seems to change with age, its purview variable.”
“What I have achieved has been largely a matter of chance. Many problems I thought about at length with no success. With other problems, there was the inspiration—indeed, some that astound me today. Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and of pretense, and indifferent to the world.”

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Key facts

Born: ( 1936-10-06 ) October 6, 1936 (age 89) , New Westminster , British Columbia, Canada
Education: University of British Columbia ( BSc , MSc ), Yale University ( PhD )
Known for: Langlands program
Awards: Jeffery–Williams Prize (1980), Cole Prize (1982), Wolf Prize (1995–96), Steele Prize (2005), Nemmers Prize (2006), Shaw Prize (2007), Abel Prize (2018), Order of Canada (2019)
Fields: Mathematics
Institutions: Princeton University , Middle East Technical University , University of California, Berkeley , Yale University , Institute for Advanced Study
Thesis: Semi-Groups and Representations of Lie Groups (1960)
Doctoral advisor: Cassius Ionescu-Tulcea
Doctoral students: James Arthur , Thomas Callister Hales , Diana Shelstad

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date of birth: 1936-10-06
Commons category: Robert Langlands
Erdős number: 2
name in native language: Robert Phelan Langlands

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Robert Phelan Langlands (/ˈlæŋləndz/; born October 6, 1936) is a Canadian mathematician. He is best known as the founder of the Langlands program, a vast web of conjectures and results connecting representation theory and automorphic forms to the study of Galois groups in number theory, for which he received the 2018 Abel Prize. He is emeritus professor and occupied Albert Einstein's office at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, until 2020 when he retired.

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