doctoral_advisor birth_place awards image_size nationality fields workplaces birth_date known_for doctoral_students image article_title name alma_mater
cassius ionescu-tulcea new westminster , british columbia , canada jeffery -lrb- 1982 -rrb- wolf prize -lrb- 1995 -- 96 -rrb- -- steele prize -lrb- 2005 -rrb- nemmers prize -lrb- 2006 -rrb- williams shaw prize -lrb- 2007 -rrb- prize -lrb- 1980 -rrb- cole prize 230px canadian mathematics princeton study university , yale university , institute for advanced 06 october 1936 langlands program james diana shelstad rajat tandon king-fai lai arthur thomas callister hales baris kendirli jonathan rogawski langlands2.jpg robert langlands
 robert langlands university of british columbia , yale university
robert langlands

robert phelan langlands -lrb- ; born october 6 , 1936 -rrb- is a canadian mathematician best known as the founder of the langlands program , a vast web of conjectures and results connecting representation theory and automorphic forms to the study of galois groups in number theory .
he is an emeritus professor and occupies albert einstein 's office at the institute for advanced study in princeton .
