James Arthur (mathematician)
James Greig Arthur CC FRSC FRS (born May 18, 1944) is a Canadian mathematician working on automorphic forms, and former President of the American Mathematical Society. He is a Mossman Chair and University Professor at the University of Toronto Department of Mathematics.
James Arthur CC | |
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| Born | May 18, 1944 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto (BSc, MSc) Yale University (PhD) |
| Known for | Arthur–Selberg trace formula Arthur conjectures |
| Awards | John L. Synge Award (1987) Jeffery–Williams Prize (1993) CRM-Fields-PIMS prize (1997) Henry Marshall Tory Medal (1997) Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering (1999) Wolf Prize (2015) Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2017) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Yale University Duke University University of Toronto |
| Thesis | Analysis of Tempered Distributions on Semisimple Lie Groups of Real Rank One (1970) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Langlands |
| Doctoral students | Cristina Ballantine |
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