Richard Borcherds

Richard Borcherds
Borcherds in 1993
Born
Richard Ewen Borcherds

(1959-11-29) 29 November 1959 (age 64)[2]
Cape Town, South Africa
NationalityBritish[3]
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Known forBorcherds algebra
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Institutions
ThesisThe leech lattice and other lattices (1984)
Doctoral advisorJohn Horton Conway[1]
Doctoral studentsDaniel Allcock[1]
Websitemath.berkeley.edu/~reb

Richard Ewen Borcherds (/ˈbɔːrərdz/; born 29 November 1959)[2] is a British[4] mathematician currently working in quantum field theory. He is known for his work in lattices, group theory, and infinite-dimensional algebras,[5][6] for which he was awarded the Fields Medal in 1998. He is well known for his proof of monstrous moonshine using ideas from string theory.

  1. ^ a b Richard Borcherds at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ a b "BORCHERDS, Prof. Richard Ewen". Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
  3. ^ Goddard, Peter (1998). "The work of Richard Ewen Borcherds". Documenta Mathematica: 99–108. arXiv:math/9808136. Bibcode:1998math......8136G. ISSN 1431-0635..
  4. ^ "Richard Borcherds".
  5. ^ James Lepowsky, "The Work of Richard Borcherds", Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 46, Number 1 (January 1999).
  6. ^ Borcherds, Richard E. (1998). "What is moonshine?". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. I. pp. 607–616.

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