Richard Borcherds

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Richard_Borcherds

GPTKB entity

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gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:person
gptkbp:almaMater	gptkb:University_of_Cambridge
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gptkbp:birthDate	1959-11-29
gptkbp:birthPlace	gptkb:Cape_Town
gptkbp:citizenship	gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor	gptkb:John_Horton_Conway
gptkbp:employer	gptkb:University_of_California,_Berkeley gptkb:University_of_Cambridge
gptkbp:field	gptkb:algebra gptkb:mathematics group theory automorphic forms vertex algebras
gptkbp:influencedBy	gptkb:John_Horton_Conway
gptkbp:knownFor	gptkb:Borcherds_algebra 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/
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Collected_Papers
gptkbp:bfsLayer	5
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Richard Borcherds