Richard Borcherds
Richard Ewen Borcherds is a British mathematician currently working in quantum field theory. He is known for his work in lattices, group theory, and infinite-dimensional algebras, for which he... Wikipedia
- Born: Richard Ewen Borcherds, November 29, 1959, Cape Town, South Africa
- Age: 66 years
- Fields: Mathematics
- Institutions: University of California, Berkeley, University of Cambridge
- Education: Trinity College, Cambridge
- Thesis: The leech lattice and other lattices (1984)
- Doctoral students: Daniel Allcock
- Known for: Monstrous moonshine theory, Borcherds algebra, Vertex algebras
- Notable awards: Whitehead Prize (1992), EMS Prize (1992), FRS (1994), Fields Medal (1998)
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