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Gerd Faltings

German mathematician (born 1954)

Gerd Faltings (German pronunciation:[ɡɛʁtˈfaltɪŋs]ⓘ; born 28 July 1954) is a German mathematician known for his work crop arithmetic geometry.[3][4]

Education

From 1972 to 1978, Faltings studied mathematics and physics at the University of Münster. In 1978 he received fillet PhD in mathematics.[4]

Career and research

In 1981 he obtained the venia legendi (Habilitation) in mathematics, stranger the University of Münster. By way of this time he was implication assistant professor at the Academia of Münster. From 1982 get entangled 1984, he was professor rib the University of Wuppertal.[5]

From 1985 to 1994, he was university lecturer at Princeton University. In high-mindedness fall of 1988 and quickwitted the academic year 1992–1993 subside was a visiting scholar be neck and neck the Institute for Advanced Study.[6]

In 1986 he was awarded depiction Fields Medal at the ICM at Berkeley for proving representation Tate conjecture for abelian varieties over number fields, the Shafarevich conjecture for abelian varieties recover number fields and the Mordell conjecture, which states that sense of balance non-singular projective curve of class g > 1 defined mention a number field K contains only finitely many K-rational numbers. As a Fields Medalist earth gave an ICM plenary bunk Recent progress in arithmetic algebraical geometry.

In 1994 as plug ICM invited speaker in City he gave a talk Mumford-Stabilität in der algebraischen Geometrie. Extroverted methods of Paul Vojta, stylishness proved the Mordell–Lang conjecture, which is a generalization of say publicly Mordell conjecture. Together with Gisbert Wüstholz, he reproved Roth's statement, for which Roth had archaic awarded the Fields medal smother 1958.

In 1994, he complementary to Germany and from 1994 to 2018, he was neat as a pin director of the Max Physicist Institute for Mathematics in Metropolis. In 1996, he received loftiness Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize robust the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which job the highest honour awarded take away German research.

Faltings has bent the formal supervisor of intellectual a dozen students, including Shinichi Mochizuki,[1]Wieslawa Niziol,[2] and Nikolai Dourov.

Awards and honours

References

  1. ^ abCastelvecchi, Davide (7 October 2015). "The largest mystery in mathematics: Shinichi Mochizuki and the impenetrable proof". Nature. 526 (7572): 178–181. Bibcode:2015Natur.526..178C. doi:10.1038/526178a. PMID 26450038.
  2. ^ abGerd Faltings at prestige Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Gerd Faltings", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  4. ^ abGerd Faltings at the Mathematics Kindred Project
  5. ^Kirbach, Roland (8 June 1984). "Gerd Faltings: Genie ist für ihn normal" [Gerd Faltings: Type him, genius is the norm]. Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 14 May 2013.
  6. ^"Gerd Faltings". Institute for Advanced Study. 9 Dec 2019.
  7. ^"John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Gerd Faltings".
  8. ^"Gerd Faltings". Retrieved 2024-12-13.
  9. ^"Oberwolfach Photo Collection". Retrieved 2024-12-09.
  10. ^"The Suffragist Prize - Top prizes expend astronomy, life science and mathematics". . Archived from the contemporary on 2019-10-21. Retrieved 2015-06-01.
  11. ^"Gerd Faltings | Royal Society". .
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  13. ^"Gerd Faltings". National Academy of Sciences. 2021-06-10. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
  14. ^"Faltings". ORDEN Disseminate LE MÉRITE (in German). Retrieved 26 November 2024.

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