Robert P. Langlands

On May 22, Robert P. Langlands, Professor Emeritus in the School of Mathematics, received The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 2018 Abel Prize, which was presented at the University Aula in Oslo. The Abel Committee cited Langlands "for his...

Writing for The Walrus, Viviane Fairbank explores the work of Robert P. Langlands, whose eponymous Langlands Program earned him the 2018 Abel Prize.

Fairbank points to the way Langlands's work realizes a concept central to the Institute's mission...

On the occasion of the 2018 Abel Prize ceremony, which honored this year's laureate Professor Emeritus Robert Langlands, Nils Baas, former Member in the Schools of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, writes in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten,...

On May 22, Robert P. Langlands, Professor Emeritus in the School of Mathematics, received the 2018 Abel Prize from His Majesty King Harald V at the University Aula in Oslo.

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Then, on May 23...

“If you think about mathematics as an archaeological excavation—many mathematicians think not of inventing something, but discovering—then some of us might find a small fragment, others might find a beautiful treasure. Robert Langlands found the...

Professor Emeritus Robert P. Langlands, named the winner of the 2018 Abel Prize at a ceremony in Norway this morning, is the progenitor of the “Langlands program,” which explores a deep connection between two pillars of modern mathematics: number...

The Canadian mathematician Robert Langlands, Professor Emeritus in the School of Mathematics, has won the 2018 Abel Prize — one of mathematics’ most-prestigious awards — for discovering surprising and far-ranging connections between algebra, number...

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has awarded the 2018 Abel Prize to Robert P. Langlands, Professor Emeritus in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study. Langlands was cited by the Abel Committee “for his visionary...

In 1967, Robert P. Langlands set out a road map to prove a “grand unified theory” that would tie together disparate areas of mathematics.

The conjectures of Dr. Langlands, now 81 and an emeritus professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in...

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has awarded the 2018 Abel Prize to Robert P. Langlands, Professor Emeritus in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study. Langlands was cited by the Abel Committee “for his visionary...