Robert P. Langlands

Message to Peter Sarnak

Year: 
February 18, 2014
Type: 
article

Author's comments (2014-04-06): The concept ``Langlands program'' appears in the title of an article by Stephen Gelbart in the BAMS of April 1984, but Gelbart himself assured me that it was already current, at least orally, before then. He also drew my attention to a phrase of Armand Borel in his Bourbaki seminar of June 1975, ``plutôt un vaste programme, élaboré par R. P. Langlands depuis environ 1967.'' I do not recall that I was uneasy with the phrase ``Langlands program'' in 1984, but it then referred principally to matters on which I myself had long reflected.

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Two Messages to Mueller and Volpato

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December 22, 2013, December 27, 2013
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article

Author's comments: These two letters were, in fact, electronic messages and were written very recently, in December 2013. They were inspired by a conversation with Julia Mueller and Michael Volpato, in which I tried to explain to them the origins of the general definition of automorphic \(L\)-functions.

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An Appreciation

Author: 
Robert Langlands
Last Name: 
Langlands
Type: 
article

Editorial comments: This essay was first posted here on December 20, 2013. The latest version dates to May 16, 2014.

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Publications
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Descartes ile Fermat

Author: 
Robert P. Langlands
Last Name: 
Langlands
Journal
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Matematik Dünyası

Volume: 
2
Year: 
2005 Yaz
Pages: 
54--61
Type: 
article
Keywords: 
Miscellaneous

Author's comments: The article is an exercise in the reading of mathematics from earlier times.

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The Shaw prize

Author: 
Robert P. Langlands
Last Name: 
Langlands
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On Certain \(L\)-Functions: A Volume in Honor of Freydoon Shahidi on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday

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article
Keywords: 
Miscellaneous
MathReview: 
2767520

Author's comments: The following three documents were composed on the receipt of the Shaw Prize in 2007. They have appeared or will appear in publications of the Shaw Foundation. The first two, a very brief autobiography and a slightly longer memoir, need no explanation. They are informal. So is the third, an attempt to explain clearly the nature of what is often referred to as the Langlands program.

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Euclid's windows and our mirrors - review of Euclid's Window by Leonard Mlodinow

Author: 
Robert P. Langlands
Last Name: 
Langlands
Journal
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Notices of the American Mathematical Society

Year: 
2002
Type: 
article
Keywords: 
Miscellaneous


Portrait engraved by van Schooten the younger, editor and translator of the Latin edition of La géometrie.
Descartes said of it, "La barbe & les habits ne ressemblent aucunement."
(From the Rosenwald Collection at the Institute in Princeton)

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A review of Haruzo Hida's \(p\)-adic automorphic forms on Shimura varieties,...

Author: 
Robert P. Langlands
Last Name: 
Langlands
Journal
Journal: 

Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

Year: 
2006
Type: 
article
Keywords: 
Miscellaneous

Author's comments: This review comes with a supplement (footnote) that contains the comments of several leading specialists and will be much more useful to the potential reader of the book, whether a novice or a specialist, than the review itself.

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Pour la science

Author: 
Robert P. Langlands
Last Name: 
Langlands
Journal
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Une façon de faire la théorie des nombres

Year: 
2007
Type: 
article
Keywords: 
Miscellaneous

Author's comments: The following article appeared in November 2007 in the popular scientific review, Pour la Science, but in a version slightly revised by the editors and their consultants for expository purposes and with diagrams added. I am sure the revised form is indeed easier for a layman to understand, but some assessments were added that are not mine. Rather than interfere with the editors' difficult task of turning arcane material into something meaningful to their readers, I let the revised version stand.

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