Gerd faltings biography of michael
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The Fields Medal is considered the Nobel Prize of mathematics, and this year the International Mathematical Union chose to award it to Peter Scholze. The professor at the University of Bonn’s Hausdorff Center for Mathematics and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics was presented with the award during the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro. The 30-year-old is only the second German to ever receive this prize.
“I am grateful for the extraordinary honour, bestowed upon me with the Fields Medal,” says Peter Scholze. The first German mathematician to be awarded the prize was Gerd Faltings in 1986, who is also a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics and a professor at the Hausdorff Centre for Mathematics. The Fields Medal is awarded every four years to recognize ‘outstanding mathematical achievement for existing work and for the promise of future achievement’. Recipients must be no more than 40 years of age. The other three field
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Michael J. Larsen
American mathematician
Michael Jeffrey Larsen is an American mathematician, a distinguished professor of mathematics at Indiana University Bloomington.[1][2]
Academic biography
[edit]In high school, Larsen tied with kvartet other competitors for the top score in the 1977 International Mathematical Olympiad in Belgrade, winning a gold medal.[3][4] As an undergraduate mathematics student at Harvard University, Larsen became a Putnam Fellow in 1981 and 1983.[5] He graduated from Harvard in 1984,[6] and earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1988, under the supervision of Gerd Faltings.[7] After working at the Institute for Advanced Study he joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1990, and then moved to the University of Missouri in 1997.[6] He joined the Indiana University faculty in 2001.[1]
His wife Ayelet Lindenstrauss is also a mathematician an
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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 in arithmetic geometry.[3][4]
Education
[edit]From 1972 to 1978, Faltings studied mathematics and physics at the University of Münster. Interrupted by 15 months of obligatory military service, he received his PhD in mathematics in 1978.[4][5][6]
Career and research
[edit]In 1981 he obtained the venia legendi (Habilitation) in mathematics, 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.[7]
From 1985 to 1994, he was professor at Princeton University. In the fall of 1988 and in the academic year 1992–1993 he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study.[8]
In 1986 he was awarded the Field