- Richard Taylor (mathematician)
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footnotes =Richard Taylor (born Richard Lawrence Taylor
19 May 1962 ) is a Britishmathematician working in the field ofnumber theory . A former research student ofAndrew Wiles , he returned to Princeton to help his advisor complete the proof ofFermat's last theorem .Taylor received the 2007
Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences for his work on the Langlands program withRobert Langlands .Academic career
He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in
1988 . From1995 to1996 he held the Savilian Chair of Geometry atOxford University and Fellow ofNew College, Oxford [‘TAYLOR, Prof. Richard Lawrence’, Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U37171, accessed 27 March 2008] ] , and he is currently the Herchel Smith Professor of Mathematics atHarvard University .He received the
Whitehead Prize in 1990, theFermat Prize and theOstrowski Prize in 2001 andtheCole Prize of theAmerican Mathematical Society in 2002. He was also elected a Fellow of theRoyal Society in 1995.Work
One of the two papers containing the published proof of Fermat's Last Theorem is a joint work of Taylor and
Andrew Wiles . [R. Taylor and A. Wiles, " [http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2118560 Ring theoretic properties of certain Hecke algebras] ", Ann. of Math. 141 (1995), no. 3, pp. 553-572 (subscription required to view article)]In subsequent work, Taylor (along with Michael Harris) proved the
local Langlands conjectures for GL("n") over anumber field . [M. Harris and R. Taylor, "The geometry and cohomology of some simple Shimura varieties", Annals of Mathematics Studies, no. 151,Princeton University Press , 2001. ISBN 0-691-09090-4]Taylor, along with
Christophe Breuil ,Brian Conrad , andFred Diamond , completed the proof of theTaniyama-Shimura conjecture . [C. Breuil, B. Conrad, F. Diamond and R. Taylor, "On the modularity of elliptic curves over" Q ": wild 3-adic exercises", J. Amer. Math. Soc. 14 (2001), no. 4, pp. 843-939]Very recently, Taylor, building on his own work and that of
Laurent Clozel , Michael Harris, andNick Shepherd-Barron , has announced a proof of theSato-Tate conjecture , forelliptic curve s with non-integralj-invariant . This partial proof of the Sato-Tate conjecture follows from a modularity result, generalizing Wiles's result for elliptic curves. [R. Taylor, " Automorphy for some l-adic lifts of automorphic mod l representations. II", preprint available at his [http://www.math.harvard.edu/~rtaylor/ website] .]Some expert opinion now predicts that the removal of the technical condition, and the full Sato-Tate conjecture, will follow from the stabilization of the
Selberg trace formula . That is, Sato-Tate is rumoured now to be subject to aconditional proof .Personal life
Taylor is married to Christine Taylor (a mathematical biologist). They have two children: Jeremy and Chloe. He is also the son of famous British physicist, John C. Taylor.
External links
* [http://www.math.harvard.edu/~rtaylor/ His home page at Harvard]
* [http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/Taylor.pdf Undated PDF talk summary apparently by Taylor]References
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