Richard Taylor

Richard Lawrence Taylor (born 19 May 1962) is a British-American mathematician specialising in number theory and currently the Barbara Kimball Browning Professor in Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University in California. He received the 2002 Cole Prize, the 2007 Shaw Prize with Robert Langlands and the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics. He received his bachelor's degree from Clare College, Cambridge, where he was president of The Archimedeans in 1981 and 1982, and earned his doctorate at Princeton University in 1988 under Andrew Wiles with a dissertation on congruences between modular forms. He held posts at the University of Cambridge from 1988 to 1995 and held the Savilian chair of geometry at the University of Oxford in 1995 and 1996.