Serge Lang

Serge Lang (French: [lɑ̃ɡ]; May 19, 1927 – September 12, 2005) was a French-American mathematician and activist who taught at Yale University for most of his career. He is known for his work in number theory and for his mathematics textbooks, including the influential Algebra. He received the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in 1960 and was a member of the Bourbaki group.

This article is about the French-American mathematician. For the French journalist who founded the alpine skiing World Cup, see Serge Lang (skiing).
Serge Lang
Serge Lang (1927–2005)
Born(1927-05-19)May 19, 1927
Paris, France
DiedSeptember 12, 2005(2005-09-12) (aged 78)
Berkeley, California
CitizenshipFrench American
EducationCalifornia Institute of Technology (BA)
Princeton University (PhD)
Known forWork in number theory
AwardsLeroy P. Steele Prize (1999)
Cole Prize (1960)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
Columbia University
Yale University
ThesisOn Quasi Algebraic Closure (1951)
Doctoral advisorEmil Artin
Doctoral studentsMinhyong Kim
Stephen Schanuel

As an activist, Lang campaigned against the Vietnam War, and also successfully fought against the nomination of the political scientist Samuel P. Huntington to the National Academies of Science. Later in his life, Lang was an HIV/AIDS denialist. He claimed that HIV had not been proven to cause AIDS and protested Yale's research into HIV/AIDS.

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