Heinrich-Wolfgang Leopoldt was a German mathematician who worked in algebraic number theory. He was born on 22 August 1927 in Schwerin in Mecklenburg and died on 28 July 2011 at Unterlüss. He enrolled at Humboldt University in Berlin in 1947, where an introduction to number theory by Helmut Hasse left a deep impression on him, and he followed Hasse to Hamburg in 1950. The University of Hamburg awarded his doctorate in 1954 for a thesis on the unit group and class number of real algebraic number fields. He then worked at Erlangen, spent 1956 to 1958 at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and in 1962 was appointed to the University of Tübingen.
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Heinrich-Wolfgang Leopoldt was a German mathematician who worked in algebraic number theory.
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He was studying at the Gymnasium in Schwerin when World War II began in 1939 .
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Heinrich-Wolfgang Leopoldt was a German mathematician who worked in algebraic number theory.
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In algebraic number theory, Leopoldt's conjecture, introduced by Heinrich-Wolfgang Leopoldt, states that the p-adic regulator of a number field does not vanish.
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