Serge Lang was a French-born mathematician who spent most of his life in the United States and is best known for his outstanding undergraduate textbooks. He was born on 19 May 1927 at Saint-Germain-en-Laye near Paris and died on 12 September 2005 in Berkeley, California. After German troops entered Paris in 1940 he fled with his father and sister to the United States, and he graduated from the California Institute of Technology in 1946 with a degree in physics. He went to Princeton intending to study philosophy, changed to mathematics, and took his Ph.D. in 1951 under Emil Artin with the dissertation On Quasi Algebraic Closure. In 1954 he published, with André Weil, a paper on the number of points of varieties in finite fields.
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Source Schanuel's Conjecture (Wikipedia)
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Source MacTutor biography of Serge Lang, St Andrews
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Source Six exponentials theorem (Wikipedia)
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Serge Lang was a French-born mathematician who spent most of his life in the USA.
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Serge Lang was a French-born mathematician who spent most of his life in the USA.
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He then served for around eighteen months in the U.S. Army and he was stationed for part of this time in Italy and Germany.
Bombieri-Lang conjecture (Wikipedia)
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In arithmetic geometry, the Bombieri-Lang conjecture is an unsolved problem conjectured by Enrico Bombieri and Serge Lang about the Zariski density of the set of rational points of an algebraic variety of general type.
Six exponentials theorem (Wikipedia)
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The theorem was first explicitly stated and proved in its complete form independently by Serge Lang and Kanakanahalli Ramachandra in the 1960s.
Schanuel's Conjecture (Wikipedia)
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It is due to Stephen Schanuel and was published by Serge Lang in 1966.
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