Richard Lawrence Taylor

Since 2010, Richard Taylor has been at the Institute for Advanced Study where he is currently the Robert and Luisa Fernholz Professor. He is an algebraic number theorist working on the interconnections between automorphic forms and Galois representations. Working with others he has helped prove the Shimura-Taniyama conjecture, the local Langlands conjecture and the Sato-Tate conjecture. In 2014, he received the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics and received the 2007 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences for his work on the Langlands program with Robert Langlands.