Richard Borcherds
Richard Borcherds | |
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Borcherds in 1993 | |
| Born | Richard Ewen Borcherds 29 November 1959 Cape Town, South Africa |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Known for | Monstrous moonshine theory Borcherds algebra Vertex algebras |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
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| Thesis | The leech lattice and other lattices (1984) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Horton Conway |
| Doctoral students | Daniel Allcock |
| Website | math |
Richard Ewen Borcherds (/ˈbɔːrtʃərdz/; born 29 November 1959) 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 was awarded the Fields Medal in 1998. He is well known for his proof of monstrous moonshine using ideas from string theory.