Robert Langlands

Robert Phelan Langlands 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.

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Who was born first?

• Robert Langlands and Alan J. Heeger were born the same year
• Robert Langlands and Hideki Shirakawa were born the same year
• Robert Langlands and Margaret Hamilton were born the same year
• Robert Langlands and Barry C. Barish were born the same year
• Robert Langlands and Robert Wilson were born the same year

Timeline

1. Alan J. HeegerJanuary 22, 1936 – present
2. Barry C. BarishJanuary 27, 1936 – present
3. Hideki ShirakawaAugust 20, 1936 – August 24, 2026
4. Margaret HamiltonAugust 17, 1936 – September 30, 2026
5. Robert Langlands (this page)October 6, 1936 – present
6. Robert WilsonJanuary 10, 1936 – present

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