abstract:Professor Robert Langdon is a fictional Harvard University professor of religious iconology and symbology (a fictional field related to the study of historic symbols, which is not methodologically connected to the actual discipline of Semiotics). The character was created by author Dan Brown for his novels Angels & Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2003), The Lost Symbol (2009) and Inferno (2013).
The movie stars Tom Hanks as RobertLangdon, an American professor who, partnered with a young French cryptographer (Audrey Tautou), untangles a knot of clues.