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Also known as Klaus Friedrich Roth, K. F. Roth

British mathematician (1925–2015)

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Type
Person
Country
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Active from
1926-12-14
Active to
1983-10-17

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Key facts

Born
Klaus Friedrich Roth , ( 1925-10-29 ) 29 October 1925, Breslau , Province of Lower Silesia , Weimar Germany
Died
10 November 2015 (2015-11-10) (aged 90), Inverness , Scotland
Education
St Paul's School, London Peterhouse, Cambridge University College London
Known for
Diophantine approximation Discrepancy theory Large sieve
Awards
Fields Medal (1958) Fellow of the Royal Society (1960) De Morgan Medal (1983) Sylvester Medal (1991)
Fields
Mathematics
Institutions
University College London Imperial College London
Thesis
Proof that almost all Positive Integers are Sums of a Square, a Positive Cube and a Fourth Power (1950)
Doctoral advisor
Theodor Estermann
Other academic advisors
John Charles Burkill Harold Davenport

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Encyclopedic overview

Klaus Friedrich Roth FRS (29 October 1925 – 10 November 2015) was a German-born British mathematician who won the Fields Medal for proving Roth's theorem on the Diophantine approximation of algebraic numbers. He was also a winner of the De Morgan Medal and the Sylvester Medal, and a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Roth moved to England as a child in 1933 to escape the Nazis, and was educated at the University of Cambridge and University College London, finishing his doctorate in 1950. He taught at University College London until 1966, when he took a chair at Imperial College London. He retired in 1988.

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