Richard taylor mathematician biography projects

For the Canadian Nobel Prize in Physics laureate, see Richard E. Taylor.

For the American Confederate general, see Richard Taylor (general).

Richard Lawrence Taylor (born 19 May 1962) is a Britishmathematician. He works in number theory. He was a former research student of Andrew Wiles. He returned to Princeton to help Wiles complete the proof of Fermat's last theorem.

Taylor received the 2007 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences. This for his work on the Langlands program. He did this work with Robert Langlands.

Career

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Taylor received his B.A. from Clare College, Cambridge.^[1][2] He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1988. From 1995 to 1996 he held the Savilian Chair of Geometry^[1] at Oxford University. He was also a Fellow of New College, Oxford.^[2] Currently, he is the Herchel Smith Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University.

He received the Whitehead Pri