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Robert Langlands
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Robert Phelan Langlands is a Canadian mathematician and professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is best known as the founder of the Langlands program, a vast network of conjectures connecting representation theory and automorphic forms to the study of Galois groups in number theory, first outlined in a famous letter to André Weil in January 1967. He received the 2018 Abel Prize for this visionary work.
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mention·Dwarkesh·JUNE 30, 2026
“Langlands was a mathematician. He has this like famous letter now essentially spelling out how it seems likely that there's a lot more connections like that.”
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