News Release
RICHARD TAYLOR RECEIVES
AMS COLE PRIZE IN NUMBER THEORY
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January 7, 2002
PROVIDENCE, RI---Richard Taylor of Harvard University will
receive the 2002 Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory.
Presented every three years by the American Mathematical Society,
the prize recognizes outstanding contributions to mathematical
research in number theory. The prize will be awarded today at the
Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego, California.
Professor Taylor is being honored for outstanding work on the
representations of Galois groups of local and global fields,
published in the papers:
(with C. Breuil, B. Conrad, and F. Diamond) "On the modularity
of elliptic curves over Q: wild 3-adic exercises," J. Amer.
Math. Soc. 14 (2001), 843-939;
(with M. Harris) "On the geometry and cohomology of some simple
Shimura varieties," Annals of Math. Studies, Princeton University
Press, 2001;
(with K. Buzzard, M. Dickinson, and N. Shepherd-Barron) "On
icosahedral Galois representations," Duke Math. J. 109
(2001), 283-318; and
"Remarks on a conjecture of Fontaine and Mazur," Journal de
l'Inst. Jussieu.
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