Richard Taylor

Richard Taylor is a leader in the field of number theory and Galois representations, automorphic forms, and Shimura varieties in particular. With his collaborators, he has developed powerful new techniques for solving longstanding problems, including the Shimura-Taniyama conjecture, the local Langlands conjecture, and the Sato-Tate conjecture. Currently, Taylor is interested in the relationship between l-adic representations for automorphic forms – how to construct l-adic representations for automorphic forms and how to prove given l-adic representations that arise in this way. He received the LMS Whitehead Prize in 1990, the Prix Franco-Brittanique from the French Academie des Sciences in 1992, the Fermat Prize and the Ostrowski Prize in 2001, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Cole Prize of the American Mathematical Society in 2002, the Dannie Heinemann Prize of the Gottingen Academy of Sciences in 2005, the Clay Research Award, the Shaw Prize for Mathematics in 2007, and the inaugural Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics in 2014. He was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1995 and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012.