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Remembering John Tate

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In this article, I reminisce about my fond interactions with John Torrence Tate (13 March, 1925-16 October, 2019), my teacher, mentor and PhD advisor. It is hard to trace the influence of Tate’s work on other works accurately, as the basic objects, ideas and theorems that he introduced have permeated (and have been generalized by others into widely used theories) throughout mathematics. I briefly describe his many fundamental contributions to number theory and arithmetic geometry, and end with some personal anecdotes.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 14627, USA

    Dinesh S Thakur

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Dinesh Thakur did BSc from Ramnarain Ruia college in Mumbai, and went on to do PhD at Harvard University under the supervision of John Tate. He is a Professor at the University of Rochester, USA. He has held visiting positions at the TIFR Mumbai. He was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, and is an Editor of Journal of Number Theory, International Journal of Number Theory, ‘p-adic Numbers, Ultrametric Analysis and Applications’. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Bhaskaracharya Pratishthan, Pune and visits India every summer.

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Thakur, D.S. Remembering John Tate. Reson 25, 177–190 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-020-0935-9

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