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Vinony catalogs Gerd Faltings in its Abel Prize collection (29 entries). It also appears in Fields Medal.
Vinony's link graph records 322 inbound references to Gerd Faltings, and connects out to Fellow of the Royal Society, Faltings' theorem and Max Planck Institute for Mathematics.
Vinony files it under 1954 births, 20th-century German mathematicians and 21st-century German mathematicians.
Vinony links it to 43 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1954-07-28 ) 28 July 1954 (age 71) , Gelsenkirchen-Buer , North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
- Education
- University of Münster ( Dip , Dr. rer. nat. )
- Known for
- Almost ring Faltings height Faltings' annihilator theorem Faltings' theorem Faltings' product theorem
- Spouse
- Angelika Tschimmel ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1984 ; died 2011 )
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- Max Planck Institute for Mathematics University of Bonn Princeton University University of Wuppertal
- Theses
- Über Macaulayfizierung (1978) Formale Geometrie und homogene Räume (1980)
- Doctoral advisor
- Hans-Joachim Nastold
- Doctoral students
- Michael J. Larsen Shinichi Mochizuki Wiesława Nizioł Nikolai Durov
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gerd
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Buer
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- University of Münster
- Employer
- University of Bonn
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Abel Prize
- Academic degree
- doctorate
- Field of work
- Diophantine equation
- Official website
- www.hcm.uni-bonn.de/people/profile/gerd-faltings
- Image
- Gerd Faltings MFO.jpg
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- Commons category
- Gerd Faltings
- date of birth
- 1954-07-28
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
- Erdős number
- 4
- name in native language
- Gerd Faltings
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Gerd Faltings ( German: [ɡɛʁt ˈfaltɪŋs] ; born 28 July 1954) 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 several related conjectures. He won the Abel Prize in 2026 for these achievements.
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