Autor/-in: Serge Lang

Serge Lang (1927-2005) graduated from the California Institute of Technology and earned his Ph. D. in mathematics at Princeton in 1951. He taught at the University of Chicago, Columbia, and at Yale from 1972 until the end of his career. His research focused on geometry and number theory, but he taught and wrote books about many areas in mathematics, becoming one of the field's most prolific authors of advanced monographs.