John Tate

John Tate (born March 13, 1925, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.—died October 16, 2019, Lexington, Massachusetts) was an American mathematician awarded the 2010 Abel Prize “for his vast and lasting impact on the theory of numbers.” Tate received an undergraduate degree in 1946 from Harvard University and a doctorate in 1950 from Princeton University, where he studied under Austro-German mathematician Emil Artin. In his doctoral dissertation, Fourier Analysis in Number Fields and Hecke’s Zeta-Function, he applied harmonic...