Some introductory articles of the Langlands program
Recently Langlands is awarded the Shaw prize. Here are some introductory articles to Langlands’ program. Beware that the articles are by no means easy. Knowledges of algebraic number theory and modular forms are assumed.
Gelbart: An elementary introduction to the Langlands program[pdf], Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 10 (1984), 177-219.
Knapp: Introduction to the Langlands program[pdf], Theory and Automorphic Forms; An Instructional Conference at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh, 1996, Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics61 (1997), American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, pp. 245-302.
See also Vergne, All what I wanted to know about Langlands program and was afraid to ask
