births
May 19, 1927
Serge Lang, French-American mathematician, author and academic (died 2005)

Serge Lang
Serge Lang was a French-American mathematician and activist who taught at Yale University for most of his career. He is known for his work in number theory and for his mathematics textbooks, including the influential Algebra. He received the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in 1960 and was a member of the Bourbaki group.