Robert P. Langlands

Robert P. Langlands
Professor Emeritus
School of Mathematics

Robert Langlands’s profound insights in number theory and representation theory include the formulation of general principles relating automorphic forms and algebraic number theory; the introduction of a general class of L-functions; the construction of a general theory of Eisenstein series; the introduction of techniques for dealing with particular cases of the Artin conjecture (which proved to be of use in the proof of Fermat’s theorem); the introduction of endoscopy; and the development of techniques for relating the zeta functions of Shimura varieties to automorphic L-functions. Mathematicians have been working on his conjectures, the Langlands Program, for the last three decades. He has spent some of his time in recent years studying lattice models of statistical physics and the attendant conformal invariance.

Yale University, Ph.D. 1960; Princeton University Instructor 1960–61, Lecturer 1961–62, Assistant Professor–Associate Professor 1962–67; Yale University, Professor 1967–72; Institute for Advanced Study, Member 1962–63, Professor 1972–1993, Hermann Weyl Professor 1993–2007, Emeritus 2007–; American Mathematical Society, Fellow; National Academy of Sciences, Member; Royal Society of Canada, Member; Royal Society of London, Fellow

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