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Serge Lang
Serge Lang (; May 19, 1927 – September 12, 2005) 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. As an activist, he campaigned successfully against the nomination of the political scientist Samuel P. Huntington to the National Academies of Science, and
, at the Reichsuniversität Straßburg during the German occupation of France, and attempted to determine the identities of the victims in the Jewish Skeletal Collection. Other than Serge Klarsfeld, who documented his attempts in his book no other attempts were previously made to identify these people.
In 1998, Dr. Lang found archives of the Reichsuniversität located at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, including the hand-written copy of the numbers recorded by Hirt's assistant, Henri Henrypierre. Together with archives at Auschwitz concentration camp and Yad Vashem, Lang was