Mathematician:John Torrence Tate

Mathematician
American mathematician known for his contributions to algebraic number theory, algebraic geometry and arithmetic geometry.

One of the few members of the who was not actually French.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: 13 March 1925 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
 * 1956: Cole Prize
 * 1995: Steele Prize
 * 2002/2003: Wolf Prize
 * 2010: Abel Prize
 * Died: 16 October 2019 in Lexington, Massachusetts, U.S

Theorems and Definitions

 * Tate Algebra
 * Tate Cohomology Group
 * Tate Curve
 * Tate Module


 * Barsotti-Tate Group (with )
 * Hodge-Tate Module (with )
 * Mumford-Tate Group (with ) (also known as a Hodge Group for )
 * Shafarevich-Tate Group (with ) (also known as a Tate-Shafarevich Group)
 * Tate-Hodge Structure (with )


 * Tate's Thesis
 * Tate's Algorithm
 * Tate Conjecture


 * Birch-Tate Conjecture (with )
 * Serre-Tate Theorem (with )
 * Sato-Tate Conjecture (independently of )

Publications

 * 1992: Rational Points on Elliptic Curves (with )

Also known as
Usually identified as John Torrence Tate, Jr. in order to distinguish him from his father, who was a renowned physicist.