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Robert Langlands

1936 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Langlands has received more than 307,560 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Robert Langlands is the 618th most popular mathematician (down from 438th in 2019), the 272nd most popular biography from Canada (down from 168th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Canadian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Robert Langlands ranks 618 out of 1,004. Before him are Rózsa Péter, Carl Adam Petri, Jan Śniadecki, Olga Taussky-Todd, Michael Artin, and Jean Bourgain. After him are Pingala, William Burnside, Edward Arthur Milne, William Whiston, Alī ibn Ahmad al-Nasawī, and Georg Mohr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Robert Langlands ranks 302. Before him are Troy Donahue, Frankétienne, Igor Rodionov, Héctor Núñez, Eva Hesse, and Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez. After him are Zdeněk Mácal, Norman Manea, Ivo Brešan, Henri Richard, Oreste Corbatta, and Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Robert Langlands ranks 272 out of 1,622. Before him are Percy Faith (1908), Agnes Martin (1912), Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville (1661), Albert S. Ruddy (1930), Anna Paquin (1982), and Manly P. Hall (1901). After him are Roberta Bondar (1945), John Draper (1943), Paul Haggis (1953), Gordon Lightfoot (1938), Lothaire Bluteau (1957), and Henri Richard (1936).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Canada

Among mathematicians born in Canada, Robert Langlands ranks 6. Before him are John Charles Fields (1863), Simon Newcomb (1835), Albert W. Tucker (1905), Louis Nirenberg (1925), and Edward Routh (1831). After him are William Kahan (1933), James Arthur (1944), Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1923), Irving Kaplansky (1917), and Manjul Bhargava (1974).

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