{"id":18139,"date":"2018-04-05T14:57:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T10:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imm.az\/exp\/?p=18139"},"modified":"2018-04-05T14:57:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T10:57:36","slug":"robert-p-langlands-receives-the-abel-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imm.az\/exp\/2018\/04\/05\/robert-p-langlands-receives-the-abel-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert P. Langlands receives the Abel Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imm.az\/exp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Scale.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18137\" src=\"https:\/\/www.imm.az\/exp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Scale-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imm.az\/exp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Scale-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.imm.az\/exp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Scale.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Robert P. Langlands has been awarded the Abel Prize for his work dating back to January 1967. He was then a 30-year-old associate professor at Princeton, working during the Christmas break. He wrote a 17-page letter to the great French mathematician Andre\u0301 Weil, aged 60, outlining some of his new mathematical insights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf you are willing to read it as pure speculation I would appreciate that,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIf not \u2013 I am sure you have a waste basket handy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fortunately, the letter did not end up in a waste basket. His letter introduced a theory that created a completely new way of thinking about mathematics: it suggested deep links between two areas, number theory and harmonic analysis, which had previously been considered as unrelated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abelprize.no\">www.abelprize.no<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert P. Langlands has been awarded the Abel Prize for his work dating back to January 1967. He was then a 30-year-old associate professor at Princeton, working during the Christmas break. He wrote a 17-page letter to the great French mathematician Andre\u0301 Weil, aged 60, outlining some of his new mathematical insights. \u201cIf you are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imm.az\/exp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imm.az\/exp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imm.az\/exp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imm.az\/exp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imm.az\/exp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imm.az\/exp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18140,"href":"https:\/\/www.imm.az\/exp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18139\/revisions\/18140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imm.az\/exp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imm.az\/exp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imm.az\/exp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}