Background
Arthur, James Greig was born on May 18, 1944 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Son of John Greig and Katherine Mary Patricia (Scott) Arthur.
mathematician university professor
Arthur, James Greig was born on May 18, 1944 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Son of John Greig and Katherine Mary Patricia (Scott) Arthur.
Bachelor of Science, University Toronto, 1966;Master of Science, U. Toronto, 1967;Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1970.
He is currently in the Mathematics Department of the University of Toronto. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Arthur received a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto in 1966, and a M.Sc. from the same institution in 1967. Arthur taught at Yale from 1970 until 1976.
He joined the faculty of Duke University in 1976. He has been a professor at the University of Toronto since 1978. He was four times a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study between 1976 and 2002.
A pupil of Langlands, he is known for the Arthur–Selberg trace formula, generalizing the Selberg trace formula from the rank-one case (due to Selberg himself) to general reductive groups, one of the most important tools for research on the Langlands program. He also introduced the Arthur conjectures. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Fellow Royal Society Canada (Synge award in Mathematics 1987, Henry Marshall Tory medal 1997), Royal Society London. Member Canada Mathematics Society, American Mathematics Society.
Married Dorothy Pendleton Helm, June 10, 1972. Children: James Pendleton, David Greig.