Langlands is a traditional English
surname
In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give ...
stemming from
Middle English
Middle English (abbreviated to ME) is a form of the English language that was spoken after the Norman Conquest of 1066, until the late 15th century. The English language underwent distinct variations and developments following the Old English pe ...
. It refers to the land holdings of the original person so named, and literally means “long (or vast) lands”. It may refer to:
People
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Alex Langlands, British archaeologist and historian
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Alan Langlands
Sir Robert Alan Langlands (born 29 May 1952) is a former vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds. He is notable for past service as the fourth chief executive of the National Health Service executive in England (1994–2000), as principal ...
, vice chancellor of the University of Leeds
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Anders Langlands, visual effects supervisor
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Geoffrey Langlands (1917–2019), British army officer and educator
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George Langlands (1886–1951), Scottish footballer
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Graeme Langlands
Graeme Frank Langlands, Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, MBE, (2 September 1941 – 20 January 2018), also known by the nickname of "Changa", was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played from the 19 ...
(1941–2018), Australian rugby player and coach
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Langlands and Bell, English artists
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Robert Langlands
Robert Phelan Langlands, (; born October 6, 1936) is a Canadian mathematician. He is best known as the founder of the Langlands program, a vast web of conjectures and results connecting representation theory and automorphic forms to the study o ...
(born 1936), Canadian mathematician
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Langlands classification
In mathematics, the Langlands classification is a description of the irreducible representations of a reductive Lie group ''G'', suggested by Robert Langlands (1973). There are two slightly different versions of the Langlands classification. One of ...
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Langlands decomposition
In mathematics, the Langlands decomposition writes a parabolic subgroup ''P'' of a semisimple Lie group as a product P=MAN of a reductive subgroup ''M'', an abelian subgroup ''A'', and a nilpotent subgroup ''N''.
Applications
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Langlands dual
In representation theory, a branch of mathematics, the Langlands dual ''L'G'' of a reductive algebraic group ''G'' (also called the ''L''-group of ''G'') is a group that controls the representation theory of ''G''. If ''G'' is defined over a fi ...
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Langlands group
In mathematics, the Langlands group is a conjectural group ''L'F'' attached to each local or global field ''F'', that satisfies properties similar to those of the Weil group. It was given that name by Robert Kottwitz. In Kottwitz's formulati ...
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Langlands program
In mathematics, the Langlands program is a set of conjectures about connections between number theory, the theory of automorphic forms, and geometry. It was proposed by . It seeks to relate the structure of Galois groups in algebraic number t ...
Other uses
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Langlands, Queensland, a locality in the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia
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Langlands Park, a rugby league park in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Langlands (villa), a building in Kinnoull, Scotland
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