1936- Canadian-American mathematician who formulated the Langlands program. Langlands developed a series of conjectures and problems that related seemingly disparate areas of mathematics, including algebra, algebraic geometry, and number theory. The...

Robert Phelan Langlands (born October 6, 1936 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada) was one of the most influential mathematicians of the 20th century, and remains influential in the 21st. His work in automorphic forms and representation theory...