Concrete Cases Purveying Political Opinions as Science
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(This information was taken from the Distinguished Scientist Lecture Series Program 1987-1988).
Dr. Lang was born in Paris, France in 1927. He came to the United States in 1940, received the B.S. degree from the California Institute Of Technology in 1946, and the Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1951. From 1953-1955 he was an instructor at the University of Chicago, and from 1955-1970 he was professor of mathematics at Columbia University. He was a visiting professor at Princeton and Harvard and has been a professor of mathematics at Yale University since 1972. He has published more than 60 articles and has written 32 mathematics books. He is a member of The National Academy of Sciences and The American Mathematical Society. He received the Prix Carriere from the Academie des Sciences, Paris and The Cole Prize from the American Mathematical Society.
His Work: Dr. Lang's research has been primarily in algebraic geometry and number theory.
His Lecture "Concrete Cases Purveying Political Opinions as Science"
Keywords
Mathematics
Creation Date
October 31, 1987
Recommended Citation
Lang, Serge, "Concrete Cases Purveying Political Opinions as Science" (1987). DSLS 1987-1988. 5.
https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/dsls_1987_1988/5