Gerd Faltings

Gerd Faltings is a German mathematician known for his work in arithmetic geometry. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1986 for his proofs of the Mordell Conjecture and... Wikipedia

• Born:  July 28, 1954, Gelsenkirchen-Buer, West Germany
• Age:  71 years
• Fields:  Mathematics
• Institutions:  Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, University of Bonn, Princeton University, University of Wuppertal
• Alma mater:  University of Münster
• Doctoral students:  Michael J. Larsen, Shinichi Mochizuki, Wiesława Nizioł, Nikolai Durov
• Known for:  Almost ring, Faltings height, Faltings' annihilator theorem, Faltings' theorem, Faltings' product theorem
• Notable awards:  Dannie Heineman Prize (1983), Fields Medal (1986), ICM Speaker (1986, 1994), Guggenheim Fellowship (1988), Leibniz Prize (1996), Von Staudt Prize (2008), Heinz Gumin Prize (2010), King Faisal International Prize (2014), Shaw Prize (2015), ForMemRS (2016), Cantor Medal (2017), Pour le Mérite (2024), Abel Prize (2026)
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