Richard Borcherds

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Richard_Borcherds
GPTKB entity
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gptkbp:birthDate 1959-11-29
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Cape_Town
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gptkb:University_of_Cambridge
gptkbp:field gptkb:algebra
gptkb:mathematics
group theory
automorphic forms
vertex algebras
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Richard Borcherds
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gptkb:Borcherds_product
gptkb:Monstrous_moonshine
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:Royal_Society
gptkbp:nationality British
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:mathematician
gptkbp:thesisTitle Automorphic forms on O_{s+2,2}(R) and infinite-dimensional Lie algebras
gptkbp:thesisYear 1984
gptkbp:website https://math.berkeley.edu/~reb/
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