Automorphic forms

4 lives in this collection worked in automorphic forms, from 1896 to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.

Often together with: mathematical physics, number theory, representation theory. All fields

  • Carl Ludwig Siegel1896–1981

    Number theorist whose theorems on Diophantine equations, class numbers, quadratic forms, modular forms of several variables and small divisors each founded a field.

    number theory, diophantine approximation, transcendence theory

  • Atle Selberg1917–2007

    Norwegian number theorist who created the Selberg sieve, an elementary proof of the prime number theorem and the Selberg trace formula.

    analytic number theory, automorphic forms, spectral theory

  • Harish-Chandra1923–1983

    Physicist turned mathematician who created the harmonic analysis of semisimple Lie groups, from the Harish-Chandra isomorphism to the discrete series and the Plancherel formula.

    representation theory, harmonic analysis, lie groups

  • Robert Langlands1936–

    Founder of the Langlands programme, which conjectures deep correspondences between Galois representations and automorphic forms through the principle of functoriality.

    number theory, automorphic forms, representation theory