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Robert Langlands

Canadian mathematician whose conjectures on connections between number theory and harmonic analysis founded the research program that bears his name. He has spent much of his career at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

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Asked to define the Langlands program, its own specialists give answers that do not overlap

Quanta put a simple question to the mathematicians extending what has been billed as a grand unified theory of mathematics. The cause of their disagreement is structural. A sweeping claim rests on very technical individual results, in a discipline that declines to interpret what it cannot prove.

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