| Gerd Faltings | |
 Gerd Faltings, June 2006
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| Born | July 28, 1954 Gelsenkirchen |
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| Nationality | German |
| Fields | mathematics |
| Alma mater | University of Münster |
| Known for | Mordell conjecture |
| Notable awards | Fields Medal in 1986 |
Gerd Faltings (born July 28, 1954 in Gelsenkirchen-Buer) is a German mathematician known for his work in arithmetic algebraic geometry. Events 1540 - Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of Treason. Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) Gelsenkirchen (ˌgɛlzənˈkɪʁçən is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Mathematics is the body of Knowledge and Academic discipline that studies such concepts as Quantity, Structure, Space and Alma mater is Latin for "nourishing mother" It was used in Ancient Rome as a title for the mother Goddess, and in Medieval The University of Münster ( German Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, WWU is a public University located in the city of Münster In Number theory, the Mordell conjecture stated a basic result regarding the rational number solutions to Diophantine equations It was eventually proved by Gerd The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two three or four Mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Events 1540 - Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of Treason. Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) Gelsenkirchen (ˌgɛlzənˈkɪʁçən is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and research is the field of Mathematics. Algebraic geometry is a branch of Mathematics which as the name suggests combines techniques of Abstract algebra, especially Commutative algebra, with
From 1972 to 1978, he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Münster. Mathematics is the body of Knowledge and Academic discipline that studies such concepts as Quantity, Structure, Space and Physics (Greek Physis - φύσις in everyday terms is the Science of Matter and its motion. The University of Münster ( German Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, WWU is a public University located in the city 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. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. Habilitation is the highest academic qualification a person can achieve by their own pursuit in certain European and Asian countries The University of Münster ( German Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, WWU is a public University located in the city 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. The meaning of the word professor ( Latin: professor, person who professes to be an expert in some art or science teacher of highest rank) varies Universität Wuppertal is a German scientific institution located in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia. After that he was professor at Princeton University (1985-1994). Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey.
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. The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two three or four Mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical In Number theory, the Mordell conjecture stated a basic result regarding the rational number solutions to Diophantine equations It was eventually proved by Gerd
Since 1995 he has been a director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn. The Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik is a mathematical research institute located in Bonn, Germany. Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia In 1996, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research. The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (complete German title de "Förderpreis für deutsche Wissenschaftler im [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]]-Programm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft" The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (abbreviated DFG, German Research Foundation in English) is an important German research funding organization
Awards
- Dannie Heinemann Prize (1983)
- Fields Medal (1986)
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1988/89)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (1996)
External links
- Gerd Faltings at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- O'Connor, John J. The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two three or four Mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (complete German title de "Förderpreis für deutsche Wissenschaftler im [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]]-Programm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft" The Mathematics Genealogy Project is a web-based Database that gives an Academic genealogy based on Dissertation supervision relations & Robertson, Edmund F. , “Gerd Faltings”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- Faltings' home page at the University of Bonn
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