Robert Langlands

Robert Phelan Langlands is a Canadian mathematician, born in New Westminster, British Columbia, in 1936, 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 began at the University of British Columbia at the age of 16 and received his PhD from Yale University in 1960. His first academic position was at Princeton University from 1960 to 1967, and he is emeritus professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he occupied Albert Einstein's office until he retired in 2020.