Faltings biography pdf

Interrupted by 15 months of obligatory military service, he received his PhD in mathematics in From to , he was professor at the University of Wuppertal. From to , he was professor at Princeton University.

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In the fall of and in the academic year — he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study. Extending methods of Paul Vojta , he proved the Mordell—Lang conjecture , which is a generalization of the Mordell conjecture. In , he returned to Germany and from to , he was a director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn.

In , he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft , which is the highest honour awarded in German research. Faltings has been the formal supervisor of over a dozen students, including Shinichi Mochizuki , [ 1 ] Wieslawa Niziol , [ 2 ] and Nikolai Dourov. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk.

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