John Tate (mathematician)

John Tate
John Tate
	Tate in 1993
Born	John Torrence Tate Jr.; March 13, 1925; Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
Died	October 16, 2019 (aged 94); Lexington, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma mater	Harvard University (BA); Princeton University (PhD)
Known for	Tate algebra; Tate cohomology group; Tate conjecture; Tate curve; Tate duality; Tate module; Tate pairing; Tate twist; Tate's algorithm; Tate's isogeny theorem; Tate's thesis; Tate–Shafarevich group; Artin–Tate lemma; Barsotti–Tate group; Birch–Tate conjecture; Hodge-Tate module; Honda–Tate theorem; Koszul–Tate resolution; Lubin–Tate formal group law; Néron–Tate height; Sato-Tate conjecture; Serre-Tate theorem; Rigid analytic geometry; Rigid analytic space
Awards	Abel Prize (2010); Wolf Prize (2002/03); Steele Prize (1995); Cole Prize in Number Theory (1956)
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Princeton University (1950–1953); Columbia University (1953–1954); Harvard University (1954–1990); University of Texas at Austin (1990–2009)
Thesis	Fourier Analysis in Number Fields and Hecke's Zeta Functions (1950)
Doctoral advisor	Emil Artin
Doctoral students	List of notable students George Bergman; Joe Buhler; Bernard Dwork; Benedict Gross; Robert Kottwitz; V. Kumar Murty; Stephen Lichtenbaum; Jonathan Lubin; James S. Milne; Carl Pomerance; Kenneth Alan Ribet; Michael Schlessinger; Joseph H. Silverman; Dinesh Thakur; Jerrold B. Tunnell; William C. Waterhouse;

John Torrence Tate Jr. (March 13, 1925 – October 16, 2019) was an American mathematician distinguished for many fundamental contributions in algebraic number theory, arithmetic geometry, and related areas in algebraic geometry. He was awarded the Abel Prize in 2010.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.