Awards & Winners

Richard Borcherds

Date of Birth 29-November-1959
Place of Birth Cape Town
(Western Cape, South Africa, City of Cape Town)
Nationality United Kingdom, United States of America
Profession Mathematician
Richard Ewen Borcherds is a British mathematician specializing in lattices, number theory, group theory, and infinite-dimensional algebras. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1998.

Awards by Richard Borcherds

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1998


Fields Medal
(For his contributions to algebra, the theory of automorphic forms, and mathematical physics, including the introduction of vertex algebras and Borcherds' Lie algebras, the proof of the Conway-Norton moonshine conjecture and the discovery of a new class of automorphic infinite products.)