Chronicle
of Higher Education: Fresh from
winning
the top international math prize, the Fields medal, Ngo Bao
Chau has joined the mathematics faculty of the University of
Chicago. Paul Basken's profile of Ngo in this week's
Chronicle is distinctive in that it incorporates an
informative
sidebar on the work that earned Ngo his medal, his proof
last year of the fundamental lemma that underlies a group of
conjectures published in 1967 by Robert Langlands. Known as the
Langlands program, the conjectures unite concepts in number
theory and group theory and could help physicists devise a
fundamental theory that encompasses all the universe's
elementary particles and forces.
