Richard Borcherds

Richard Borcherds
Richard Borcherds
	Borcherds in 1993
Born	Richard Ewen Borcherds; 29 November 1959; Cape Town, South Africa
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge
Known for	Borcherds algebra
Awards	Whitehead Prize (1992); EMS Prize (1992); FRS (1994); Fields Medal (1998);
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley; University of Cambridge;
Thesis	The leech lattice and other lattices (1984)
Doctoral advisor	John Horton Conway
Doctoral students	Daniel Allcock
Website	math.berkeley.edu/~reb

Richard Ewen Borcherds (/ˈbɔːrtʃərdz/; born 29 November 1959) is a British mathematician currently working in quantum field theory. He is known for his work in lattices, group theory, and infinite-dimensional algebras, for which he was awarded the Fields Medal in 1998.

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