Richard Taylor (mathematician)
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Taylor in 1999
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| Born | Richard Lawrence Taylor 19 May 1962 Cambridge, UK |
| Nationality | British, American |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Institute for Advanced Study |
| Alma mater |
Princeton University Clare College, Cambridge |
| Doctoral advisor | Andrew Wiles |
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| Notable awards |
Whitehead Prize (1990) Fermat Prize (2001) Ostrowski Prize (2001) Cole Prize (2002) Shaw Prize (2007) Clay Research Award (2007) Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2014) |
| Spouse | Christine Taylor |
Richard Lawrence Taylor (born 19 May 1962) is a British and Americanmathematician working in the field of number theory.
A former research student of Andrew Wiles, he returned to Princeton to help his advisor complete the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
Taylor received the 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics "for numerous breakthrough results in the theory of automorphic forms, including the Taniyama–Weil conjecture, the local Langlands conjecture for general linear groups, and the Sato–Tate conjecture." He also received the 2007 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences for his work on the Langlands program with Robert Langlands.
He received his B.A. from Clare College, Cambridge, and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1988. From 1995–96 he held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at Oxford University and Fellow of New College, Oxford, and later became the Herchel Smith Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. He currently holds Robert and Luisa Fernholz Professorship at the Institute for Advanced Study.
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