作者简介
SergeLang(May19,1927–September12,2005)wasaFrench-bornAmericanmathematician.Heisknownforhisworkinnumbertheoryandforhismathematicstextbooks,includingtheinfluentialAlgebra.HewasamemberoftheBourbakigroup.LangwasborninParisin1927,andmovedwithhisfamilytoCaliforniaasateenager,wherehegraduatedin1943fromBeverlyHillsHighSchool.HesubsequentlygraduatedfromtheCaliforniaInstituteofTechnologyin1946,andreceivedadoctoratefromPrincetonUniversityin1951.HeheldfacultypositionsattheUniversityofChicagoandColumbiaUniversity(from1955,leavingin1971inadispute).AtthetimeofhisdeathhewasprofessoremeritusofmathematicsatYaleUniversity.
