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Robert Langlands

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Robert Phelan Langlands, (; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Langlands is the 475th most popular mathematician (up from 618th in 2019), the 190th most popular biography from Canada (up from 272nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Canadian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Robert Langlands ranks 475 out of 1,004. Before him are Michael O. Rabin, Eric Temple Bell, Pavel Urysohn, Charles Julien Brianchon, William Sealy Gosset, and Hermann Hankel. After him are W. V. D. Hodge, Al-Samawal al-Maghribi, Karl Mollweide, Kurt Hensel, Philipp Frank, and Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Robert Langlands ranks 215. Before him are Trevor Taylor, Philip Kaufman, Reiner Klimke, Boniface Alexandre, Mary Tyler Moore, and Hazem El Beblawi. After him are Ante Žanetić, Aribert Reimann, Vice Vukov, Karl Lehmann, Arend Lijphart, and Ivonka Survilla.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Robert Langlands ranks 190 out of 1,622. Before him are Evangeline Lilly (1979), Wilfrid Laurier (1841), Frances Oldham Kelsey (1914), Alex Wilson (1905), Vanity (1959), and Maynard Ferguson (1928). After him are Bret Hart (1957), Henry Czerny (1959), John van 't Schip (1963), Marie Dressler (1868), Jeff Wall (1946), and John Tuzo Wilson (1908).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Canada

Among mathematicians born in Canada, Robert Langlands ranks 4. Before him are John Charles Fields (1863), Simon Newcomb (1835), and Louis Nirenberg (1925). After him are Edward Routh (1831), William Kahan (1933), Albert W. Tucker (1905), James Arthur (1944), Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1923), Irving Kaplansky (1917), and Manjul Bhargava (1974).

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