caption doctoral_advisor death_date death_place work_institution birth_place citizenship image_size doctoral_students field birth_date known_for residence prizes image article_title name alma_mater
serge lang -lrb- 1927 -- 2005 -rrb- emil artin 12 september 2005 berkeley , california university of chicago columbia university yale university paris , france french american 250px newcomb schanuel greenleaf minhyong kim joseph repka david rohrlich stephen mathematics 19 may 1927 work in number theory united states leroy -lrb- 1960 -rrb- p. steele prize -lrb- 1999 -rrb- cole prize serge_lang . jpg serge lang
 serge lang california -lrb- phd -rrb- institute of technology -lrb- b.a. -rrb- princeton university
serge lang

serge lang -lrb- ; may 19 , 1927 -- september 12 , 2005 -rrb- was a french-born american mathematician .
he is known for his work in number theory and for his mathematics textbooks , including the influential `` algebra '' .
he was a member of the bourbaki group .
lang was born in paris in 1927 , and moved with his family to california as a teenager , where he graduated in 1943 from beverly hills high school .
he subsequently graduated from the california institute of technology in 1946 , and received a doctorate from princeton university in 1951 .
he held faculty positions at the university of chicago and columbia university -lrb- from 1955 , leaving in 1971 in a dispute -rrb- .
at the time of his death he was professor emeritus of mathematics at yale university .
