The department congratulates James Arthur for being appointed as a Companion of the Order of Canada. The Order of Canada honours people who make extraordinary contributions to Canada. To be named a Companion is the highest honour in the Order and it recognizes national pre-eminence or international service or achievement. Arthur is being recognized for "his seminal contributions to contemporary mathematics, notably through his groundbreaking advancements to the theory of numbers’ trace formula."
University Professor James Arthur, in U of T’s department of mathematics, was today named a Companion of the Order for his contributions to contemporary mathematics, notably his “groundbreaking” advancements to the theory of the trace formula, a complex mathematical formula that relates geometric and spectral information.
“I have had scientific recognition in Canada, but I feel very proud – and thrilled – to be recognized more broadly with the Order of Canada,” he said.
Arthur, who three years ago won a prestigious Wolf Prize in Mathematics, is joined as a Companion by U of T University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton, who is also known as the “godfather” of deep learning – a branch of artificial intelligence that mimics the way the human brain learns.