Meanings
alternative Langlands programme
- mathematicsA set of interconnected, far-reaching and consequential conjectures connecting number theory with geometry.
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2021, Steve Gelbart, The Early Langlands Program — Personal Reflections, Julia Mueller, Freydoon Shahidi (editors), The Genesis of the Langlands Program, Cambridge University Press, London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series 467, page 49, This kind of interaction is greatly appreciated, and when combined with his much larger Langlands Program, makes for a formidable force.
plural Langlands programs · alternative Langlands programme
- mathematicsAny of several similar sets of conjectures applicable to restricted domains of number theory and/or geometry.
p-adic Langlands program
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modulo p Langlands program
Origin
Named after Canadian mathematician Robert Langlands, who proposed it in 1967 (privately) and publicly in 1970.
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