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Robert Langlands was born on 6 October, 1936 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada, is a Canadian mathematician. Discover Robert Langlands's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?

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1936

Robert Phelan Langlands, (born October 6, 1936) is a Canadian mathematician.

Langlands was born in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada, in 1936 to Robert Langlands and Kathleen J Phelan.

1938

He has two younger sisters (Mary b 1938; Sally b 1941).

1945

In 1945, his family moved to White Rock, near the US border, where his parents had a building supply and construction business.

1950

He next constructed an analytical theory of Eisenstein series for reductive groups of rank greater than one, thus extending work of Hans Maass, Walter Roelcke, and Atle Selberg from the early 1950s for rank one groups such as.

This amounted to describing in general terms the continuous spectra of arithmetic quotients, and showing that all automorphic forms arise in terms of cusp forms and the residues of Eisenstein series induced from cusp forms on smaller subgroups.

As a first application, he proved the Weil conjecture on Tamagawa numbers for the large class of arbitrary simply connected Chevalley groups defined over the rational numbers.

Previously this had been known only in a few isolated cases and for certain classical groups where it could be shown by induction.

As a second application of this work, he was able to show meromorphic continuation for a large class of L-functions arising in the theory of automorphic forms, not previously known to have them.

These occurred in the constant terms of Eisenstein series, and meromorphicity as well as a weak functional equation were a consequence of functional equations for Eisenstein series.

1957

He graduated from Semiahmoo Secondary School and started enrolling at the University of British Columbia at the age of 16, receiving his undergraduate degree in Mathematics in 1957; he continued at UBC to receive an M. Sc.

1958

in 1958.

1960

He then went to Yale University where he received a PhD in 1960.

His first academic position was at Princeton University from 1960 to 1967, where he worked as an associate professor.

1964

He was a Miller Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley from 1964 to 1965, then was a professor at Yale University from 1967 to 1972.

1966

This work led in turn, in the winter of 1966–67, to the now well known conjectures making up what is often called the Langlands program.

Very roughly speaking, they propose a huge generalization of previously known examples of reciprocity, including (a) classical class field theory, in which characters of local and arithmetic abelian Galois groups are identified with characters of local multiplicative groups and the idele quotient group, respectively; (b) earlier results of Martin Eichler and Goro Shimura in which the Hasse–Weil zeta functions of arithmetic quotients of the upper half plane are identified with L-functions occurring in Hecke's theory of holomorphic automorphic forms.

1967

He spent a year in Turkey at METU during 1967–68 in an office next to Cahit Arf's.

These conjectures were first posed in relatively complete form in a famous letter to Weil, written in January 1967.

It was in this letter that he introduced what has since become known as the L-group and along with it, the notion of functoriality.

The book by Hervé Jacquet and Langlands on presented a theory of automorphic forms for the general linear group, establishing among other things the Jacquet–Langlands correspondence showing that functoriality was capable of explaining very precisely how automorphic forms for related to those for quaternion algebras.

This book applied the adelic trace formula for and quaternion algebras to do this.

Subsequently, James Arthur, a student of Langlands while he was at Yale, successfully developed the trace formula for groups of higher rank.

This has become a major tool in attacking functoriality in general, and in particular has been applied to demonstrating that the Hasse–Weil zeta functions of certain Shimura varieties are among the L-functions arising from automorphic forms.

The functoriality conjecture is far from proven, but a special case (the octahedral Artin conjecture, proved by Langlands and Tunnell ) was the starting point of Andrew Wiles' attack on the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture and Fermat's Last Theorem.

1972

He was appointed Hermann Weyl Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1972, and became professor emeritus in January 2007.

Langlands' Ph.D. thesis was on the analytical theory of Lie semigroups, but he soon moved into representation theory, adapting the methods of Harish-Chandra to the theory of automorphic forms.

His first accomplishment in this field was a formula for the dimension of certain spaces of automorphic forms, in which particular types of Harish-Chandra's discrete series appeared.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1972 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1981.

1980

In the mid-1980s Langlands turned his attention to physics, particularly the problems of percolation and conformal invariance.

1990

Langlands was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1990.

1993

He was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1993 and a member of the American Philosophical Society 2004.

1995

In 1995, Langlands started a collaboration with Bill Casselman at the University of British Columbia with the aim of posting nearly all of his writings—including publications, preprints, as well as selected correspondence—on the Internet.

The correspondence includes a copy of the original letter to Weil that introduced the L-group.

In recent years he has turned his attention back to automorphic forms, working in particular on a theme he calls "beyond endoscopy".

1996

Langlands has received the 1996 Wolf Prize (which he shared with Andrew Wiles), the 2005 AMS Steele Prize, the 1980 Jeffery–Williams Prize, the 1988 NAS Award in Mathematics from the National Academy of Sciences, the 2000 grande médaille de l'Académie des sciences de Paris, the 2006 Nemmers Prize in Mathematics, the 2007 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences (with Richard Taylor) for his work on automorphic forms.

2012

In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

2018

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.

In 2018, Langlands was awarded the Abel Prize for "his visionary program connecting representation theory to number theory".

2020

He was an emeritus professor and occupied Albert Einstein's office at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, until 2020 when he retired.