James Arthur (mathematician)
James Arthur | |
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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 |
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 Emeritus at the University of Toronto Department of Mathematics. He won the Wolf Prize in 2015 "for his monumental work on the trace formula and his fundamental contributions to the theory of automorphic representations of reductive groups".