Gerd Faltings
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| Born | 28 July 1954 Gelsenkirchen-Buer, West Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Max Planck Institute for Mathematics Princeton University University of Wuppertal |
| Alma mater | University of Münster |
| Doctoral advisor | Hans-Joachim Nastold |
| Doctoral students | Michael J. Larsen Shinichi Mochizuki Adrian Vasiu |
| Known for | Mordell conjecture |
| Notable awards | Fields Medal (1986) Leibniz Prize (1996) |
Gerd Faltings (born 28 July 1954) is a German mathematician known for his work in arithmetic algebraic geometry.
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Life [edit]
Faltings was born in Gelsenkirchen. From 1972 to 1978, he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Münster. In 1978 he received his PhD in mathematics and in 1981 he got the venia legendi (Habilitation) in mathematics, both from the University of Münster. During this time he was an assistant professor at the University of Münster. From 1982 to 1984, he was professor at the University of Wuppertal.[1] After that he was professor at Princeton University from 1985 to 1994.
He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1986 for proving the Mordell conjecture, which states that any non-singular projective curve of genus g > 1 defined over a number field K contains only finitely many K-rational points.
Since 1994 he has been a director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn. In 1996, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research.
Awards [edit]
- Fields Medal (1986)
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1988/89)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (1996)
See also [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ Kirbach, Roland (8 June 1984). "Gerd Faltings: Genie ist für ihn normal" [Gerd Faltings: For him, genius is the norm]. Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 14 May 2013.
External links [edit]
- Gerd Faltings at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Gerd Faltings", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
- Faltings' home page at the University of Bonn
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- 1954 births
- University of Münster alumni
- Princeton University faculty
- Living people
- German mathematicians
- 20th-century mathematicians
- 21st-century mathematicians
- Fields Medalists
- Leibniz Prize winners
- Algebraic geometers
- Number theorists
- University of Bonn faculty
- People from Gelsenkirchen
- Studienstiftung alumni
- University of Wuppertal faculty
- Guggenheim Fellows
- Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
