Hidden correspondences hint at a deeper structure to the mathematical universe. Our columnist unpacks one of those connections and asks mathematicians what they might mean.
Canadian-American wins ‘maths Nobel’ for the Langlands program, which predicts unexpected connections between different fields Some mathematicians are immortalised by a theorem. Others by a conjecture ...
“I am now elderly and have turned my efforts to other things – just a reading, in the original – of the very long (four volume) Turkish novel, Bir Ada Hikayesi,” mathematician Robert Langlands, now 87 ...
It may contain inaccuracies due to the limitations of machine translation. In May, the online science outlet 'New Scientist' reported that researchers including Professor Sam Raskin of Yale University ...
Robert Langlands, who developed one of the most original insights of 20th-century mathematics, was named the winner of the 2018 Abel Prize at a ceremony in Norway this morning. The prize, which is ...
The Langlands program has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up new worlds for them to explore One of the biggest stories in science has been ...
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters will award the Abel Prize for 2018 to Robert Langlands for work he did while an associate professor at Princeton University. Langlands, now an emeritus ...
The mathematical concepts behind the “fundamental lemma,” as postulated by Robert P. Langlands and proven by Ngo Bao Chau, are exceedingly difficult to explain. So much so that when asked, many top ...