Serge Lang
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Serge Lang (1927–2005)
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| Born |
May 19, 1927 Paris, France |
| Died | September 12, 2005 (aged 78) Berkeley, California |
| Residence | United States |
| Citizenship | French American |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions |
University of Chicago Columbia University Yale University |
| Alma mater |
California Institute of Technology (B.A.) Princeton University (PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | Emil Artin |
| Doctoral students |
Newcomb Greenleaf Minhyong Kim Joseph Repka David Rohrlich Stephen Schanuel |
| Known for | Work in number theory |
| Notable awards |
Leroy P. Steele Prize (1999) Cole Prize (1960) |
Serge Lang (French: [lɑ̃ɡ]; May 19, 1927 – September 12, 2005) was a French-born American mathematician and activist. 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. At the time of his death he was professor emeritus of mathematics at Yale University.
Serge Lang was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye close to Paris in 1927. Serge had a twin brother who became a basketball coach and a sister who became an actress.
Lang 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, Columbia University (from 1955, leaving in 1971 in a dispute), and Yale University.
Lang studied under Emil Artin at Princeton University, writing his thesis on quasi-algebraic closure. Lang then worked on the geometric analogues of class field theory and diophantine geometry. Later he moved into diophantine approximation and transcendental number theory, proving the Schneider–Lang theorem.
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