Robert Langlands (nonfiction)

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Robert Langlands.

Robert Phelan Langlands (/ˈlæŋləndz/; born October 6, 1936) is an American-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.

He is an emeritus professor and occupies Albert Einstein's office at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

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