58. James G. Arthur

President, 2005–2006

Ph.D. Yale University, Connecticut, 1970

Arthur taught at Princeton University, Yale University, and Duke University before joining the University of Toronto in 1979. Although several past AMS presidents were born or trained outside the U.S., Arthur is the first to serve as president while in another country, Canada. He is internationally recognized as a leader in representation theory and automorphic forms and is a mentor to young faculty and graduate students. Arthur has achieved distinctions including fellowships with the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Society of London and membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1999, he received the Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering from NSERC, the top science award in Canada.

Arthur has been an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians three times and gave an Address at the 2005 Abel Prize Celebration in honor of award winner Peter Lax. Arthur was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2014 and is a Fellow of the AMS.

Additional information

• MR Author Profile
• Mathematics Genealogy Project
• "Nomination for James G. Arthur," (for AMS President Elect), by Robert Langlands, Notices of the AMS, November 2003, p.1303.
• "Presidential Views: Interview with James Arthur," (after Arthur's term began), by Allyn Jackson, Notices of the AMS, March 2005, p.350.
• "James Arthur Receives Canada Gold Medal," (from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council announcement), Notices of the AMS, February 1998, p.245.
• "Presidential Views: Interview with James Arthur," by Allyn Jackson, Notices of the AMS, February 2007, p.246.
• Fellow of the AMS
• James G. Arthur Archive of Collected Works