Fields medalist Ngo Bao Chau joins the University of Chicago’s math faculty
SEP 13, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024664
Chronicle of Higher Education : Fresh from winning the top international math prize , the Fields medal, Ngo Bao Chau has joined the mathematics faculty of the University of Chicago. Paul Basken’s profile of Ngo in this week’s Chronicle is distinctive in that it incorporates an informative sidebar on the work that earned Ngo his medal, his proof last year of the fundamental lemma that underlies a group of conjectures published in 1967 by Robert Langlands. Known as the Langlands program, the conjectures unite concepts in number theory and group theory and could help physicists devise a fundamental theory that encompasses all the universe’s elementary particles and forces.
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