Lang, Serge, 1927-2005

Enlarge text Shrink text
  • Personality
| System number 987007590073705171

Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Lang, Serge, 1927-2005
Other forms of name
Lang, S. (Serge), 1927-2005
Lang, Serzh, 1927-2005
Leng, S., 1927-2005
Lang, Serge, 1927-
Date of birth
1927-05-19
Date of death
2005-09-12
Field of activity
Mathematics
Occupation
Mathematicians
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
b. May 19
Dept. of Math., Yale U.
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 107030972
Wikidata: Q371948
Library of congress: n 79053939
Sources of Information
  • Information from 678 field, converted Jan. 31, 2018(b. May 19; Dept. of Math., Yale U.)
  • Introduction to algebraic geometry, c1955:title page (Serge Lang)
  • His Introduction to algebraic geometry, c1955.
  • His Complex multipl., c1983:CIP t.p. (Serge Lang) bk. spine (S. Lang)
  • New York times WWW site, Sept. 27, 2005(in obituary published Sept. 25: Serge Lang; b. 1927, Paris; d. Sept. 12, Berkeley, Calif., aged 78; leading mathematical theorist who became better known for his academic jousts with nonmathematicians on social and political issues than for his work in geometry and the properties of numbers)
  • His SL₂(R), 1977:t.p. (S. Leng)