Jonathan Darby Lubin (born August 10, 1936, in Staten Island, New York) is a professor emeritus of mathematics at

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. He received an A.B. from Columbia College in 1957 and a

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from

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in 1963 under the direction of

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. He taught at

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from 1962–1967 and at Brown University from 1967–2000. He and Tate introduced Lubin–Tate formal group laws and used them to construct explicit local

class field theory In mathematics, class field theory (CFT) is the fundamental branch of algebraic number theory whose goal is to describe all the abelian Galois extensions of local and global fields using objects associated to the ground field. Hilbert is credit ...

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