Serge Lang was a French-born American mathematician

Mathematician

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. He was known for his work in number theory

Number theory

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 and for his mathematics textbooks, including the influential Algebra. He was a member of the Bourbaki group.

Lang was born in Paris in 1927, and moved with his family to California as a teenager, where he graduated in 1943 from Beverly Hills High School

Beverly Hills High School

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. He subsequently graduated from the California Institute of Technology

California Institute of Technology

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 in 1946, and received a doctorate from Princeton University

Princeton University

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 in 1951.