Gerd Faltings
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| Born | 28 July 1954 |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | University of Münster |
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| Doctoral advisor | Hans-Joachim Nastold |
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| Website | www |
Gerd Faltings (German pronunciation: [ɡɛʁt ˈfaltɪŋs] ⓘ; born 28 July 1954) is a German mathematician known for his work in arithmetic geometry.[3][4]
Education
From 1972 to 1978, Faltings studied
Career and research
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.[5]
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.[6]
In 1986 he was awarded the
In 1994 as an
In 1994, he returned to Germany and from 1994 to 2018, he was a director of the
Faltings has been the formal supervisor of over a dozen students, including
Awards and honours
- Fields Medal (1986)
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1988/89) [7]
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize(1996)
- King Faisal International Prize(2014)
- Shaw Prize (2015) [8]
- Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2016) [9]
- Cantor Medal (2017) [10]
- National Academy of Sciences International Member (2018)[11]
References
- ^ PMID 26450038.
- ^ a b 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
- ^ a b Gerd Faltings at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Gerd Faltings". Institute for Advanced Study. 9 December 2019.
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Gerd Faltings".
- ^ "The Shaw Prize - Top prizes for astronomy, life science and mathematics". www.shawprize.org.
- ^ "Gerd Faltings | Royal Society". royalsociety.org.
- ^ "Presseinformationen". www.mathematik.de.
- ^ "Gerd Faltings". National Academy of Sciences. 2021-06-10. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
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