Mathematician:John Torrence Tate
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Mathematician
American mathematician known for his contributions to algebraic number theory, algebraic geometry and arithmetic geometry.
One of the few members of the Bourbaki group who was not actually French.
Wolf Prize
John Torrence Tate was awarded a Wolf Prize for Mathematics in $\text {2002/03}$:
- For his creation of fundamental concepts in algebraic number theory.
Abel Prize
John Torrence Tate was awarded an Abel Prize in $\text {2010}$:
- For his vast and lasting impact on the theory of numbers.
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
- Barsotti-Tate Group (with Iacopo Barsotti)
- Hodge-Tate Module (with William Vallance Douglas Hodge)
- Koszul-Tate Resolution (with Jean-Louis Koszul)
- Mumford-Tate Group (with David Bryant Mumford) (also known as a Hodge Group for William Vallance Douglas Hodge)
- Néron-Tate Height (with André Néron)
- Shafarevich-Tate Group (with Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich) (also known as a Tate-Shafarevich Group)
- Tate-Hodge Structure (with William Vallance Douglas Hodge)
- Artin-Tate Lemma (with Emil Artin)
- Birch-Tate Conjecture (with Bryan John Birch)
- Hodge-Tate Theorem (with William Vallance Douglas Hodge)
- Lubin-Tate Formal Group Law (with Jonathan Darby Lubin)
- Poitou-Tate Duality (with Georges Poitou) (also known as Tate Duality)
- Sato-Tate Conjecture (independently of Mikio Sato)
- Serre-Tate Theorem (with Jean-Pierre Serre)
Publications
- 1992: Rational Points on Elliptic Curves (with Joseph Hillel Silverman)
- 1997: Finite Flat Group Schemes (Modular Forms and Fermat's Last Theorem pp. 121 – 154) (edited by Gary Cornell, Joseph H. Silverman and Glenn Stevens)
Also known as
Usually identified as John Torrence Tate, Jr. in order to distinguish him from his father, who was a renowned physicist.