Serge Lang 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... Wikipedia
Born: May 19, 1927, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
Died: September 12, 2005 (age 78 years), Berkeley, CA
Awards: Leroy P. Steele Prize (1999) and Frank Nelson Cole Prize (1960)
Doctoral students: Minhyong Kim; Stephen Schanuel
Education: California Institute of Technology (BA); Princeton University (PhD)
Thesis: On Quasi Algebraic Closure (1951)
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