Serge Lang
Serge Lang | |
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Lang in Berkeley, 1990 | |
| Born | May 19, 1927 Paris, France |
| Died | September 12, 2005 (aged 78) Berkeley, California, U.S. |
| Education | California Institute of Technology (BA) Princeton University (PhD) |
| Known for | Work in number theory |
| Awards | Leroy P. Steele Prize (1999) Cole Prize (1960) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Chicago Columbia University Yale University |
| Thesis | On Quasi Algebraic Closure (1951) |
| Doctoral advisor | Emil Artin |
| Doctoral students | William Adams Allen Altman Bernard Berlowitz Eliot Brenner William Cherry Lisa Fastenberg Marvin Greenberg Newcomb Greenleaf Donald Kersey Minhyong Kim Warren May Michael Nakamaye Joseph Repka David Rohrlich Stephen Schanuel Andrew Sinton Jing Yu |
Serge Lang (French: [lɑ̃ɡ]; May 19, 1927 – September 12, 2005) was a French-American mathematician and activist who taught at Yale University for most of his career. He is known for his work in number theory and for his mathematics textbooks, including the influential Algebra. He received the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in 1960 and was a member of the Bourbaki group.
As an activist, Lang campaigned against the Vietnam War, and also successfully fought against the nomination of the political scientist Samuel P. Huntington to the National Academies of Science. Later in his life, Lang was an HIV/AIDS denialist. He claimed that HIV had not been proven to cause AIDS and protested Yale's research into HIV/AIDS.