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Richard Ewan Borcherds

Current Location:: Berkeley, Alameda, California, United States
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Birthplace: Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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About Richard Borcherds, Fields Medal 1998

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

Awards

  • Whitehead Prize (1992)
  • EMS Prize (1992)
  • FRS (1994)
  • Fields Medal (1998)
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1959
November 29, 1959
Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa