Peter Scholze
Peter Scholze | |
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![]() Peter Scholze, Oberwolfach 2011 | |
Born | |
Nationality | German |
Alma mater | University of Bonn |
Known for | Introduction of perfectoid space notion |
Awards | EMS Prize (2016) Leibniz Prize (2016) Fermat Prize (2015) Ostrowski Prize (2015) Cole Prize (2015) Clay Research Award (2014) SASTRA Ramanujan Prize (2013) Prix and Cours Peccot (2012) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Bonn |
Thesis | Perfectoid Spaces (2011) |
Doctoral advisor | Michael Rapoport[1] |
Peter Scholze (born 11 December 1987) is a German mathematician known for his work in arithmetic algebraic geometry. He is a professor at the University of Bonn[2] and has been called one of the leading mathematicians in the world.[3][4][5]
Life
Peter's father was a physicist and his mother was an electrical engineer. Peter Scholze attended Heinrich-Hertz-Gymnasium in Berlin-Friedrichshain, a gymnasium with a mathematical/natural-scientific profile.[6] As a student, he participated in the International Mathematics Olympiad, winning three gold medals and one silver medal.[7]
He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Bonn in 2012 under the supervision of Michael Rapoport.[1] He had completed his Bachelor's degree in three semesters and his Master's degree in two further semesters.
Work
Scholze's work concentrated on purely local aspects of arithmetic geometry such as p-adic geometry and its applications. He presented in a more compact form some of the previous fundamental theories pioneered by Gerd Faltings, Jean-Marc Fontaine and later by Kiran Kedlaya. His PhD thesis on perfectoid spaces[8] yields the solution to a special case of the weight-monodromy conjecture.[9]
He was made full professor in 2012, shortly after completing his PhD, becoming the youngest full professor in Germany, at the age of 24.[3][10][11][12]
Awards
From July 2011 until 2016, Scholze was a Research Fellow of the Clay Mathematics Institute.[13] In 2012, he was awarded the Prix and Cours Peccot.[14] He was awarded the 2013 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize. In 2014, he received the Clay Research Award. In 2015, he was awarded the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra,[15] and the Ostrowski Prize.[16]
He received the Fermat Prize 2015 from the Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse.[17] He was awarded a Leibniz Prize 2016 by the German Research Foundation.[18] At the same time, he declined the "New Horizons in Mathematics Prize" of the Breakthrough Prizes in 2016.[19]
References
- ^ a b Peter Scholze at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "HCM: Prof. Dr. Peter Scholze". Hcm.uni-bonn.de. Retrieved 2013-05-30.
- ^ a b Mathematiker Peter Scholze (24) nimmt Ruf nach Bonn an – als jüngster deutscher W3-Professor. In: idw-online.de. 15 October 2012.
- ^ Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- ^ Peter Scholze to receive 2013 Sastra Ramanujan Prize
- ^ Mit ihm kann man rechnen, tagesspiegel.de
- ^ Scholzes results at the International Mathematical Olympiad
- ^ Perfectoid spaces, Publ. math. de l'IHÉS 116 (2012), no. 1, 245–313,
- ^ Perfectoid spaces: A survey, to appear in Proceedings of the 2012 conference on Current Developments in Mathematics.
- ^ Der Spiegel
- ^ Bild.de
- ^ Berliner Zeitung
- ^ Peter Scholze, claymath.org
- ^ College de France
- ^ AMS - Cole Prize 2015
- ^ Ostrowski Foundation – "The Ostrowski Prize for the year 2015 is confered [sic] to Peter Scholze."
- ^ Fermat Prize 2015
- ^ "Leibniz Prizes 2016: DFG Honours Ten Researchers". Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. 10 December 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
- ^ "2016 Breakthrough Prizes". breakthroughprize.org. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
http://www.geniusexperiment.com/2013/04/the-gifted-myth/
External links
- Peter Scholze's results at International Mathematical Olympiad
- Klarreich, Erica (28 June 2016), "The Oracle of Arithmetic", Quanta Magazine ("Peter Scholze And The Future of Arithmetic Geometry")