Robert Langlands

Robert Phelan Langlands (born October 6, 1936) is a mathematician, best known as the founder of the Langlands program. He is an emeritus professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. His work in automorphic forms and representation theory has had a major effect on number theory. Langlands received an undergraduate degree from the University of British Columbia in 1957, and continued on there to receive an M. Sc. in 1958. He then went to Yale University where he received a Ph.D. in 1960. His academic positions since then include the years 1960-67 at Princeton University, ending up as Associate Professor, and the years 1967-72 at Yale University. He was appointed Hermann Weyl Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1972,...