Richard Borcherds

Richard Borcherds
Borcherds in 1993
Born
Richard Ewen Borcherds

(1959-11-29) 29 November 1959
Cape Town, South Africa
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Known forMonstrous moonshine theory
Borcherds algebra
Vertex algebras
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Institutions
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of Cambridge
ThesisThe leech lattice and other lattices (1984)
Doctoral advisor
John Horton Conway
Doctoral students
Daniel Allcock
Websitemath.berkeley.edu/~reb

Richard Ewen Borcherds (/ˈbɔːrtʃərdz/; born 29 November 1959) is a British mathematician currently working in quantum field theory. He is known for his work in lattices, group theory, and infinite-dimensional algebras, for which he was awarded the Fields Medal in 1998. He is well known for his proof of monstrous moonshine using ideas from string theory.

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