Gerd Faltings, born on 28 July 1954 in Gelsenkirchen-Buer, West Germany, is a German mathematician known for his work in arithmetic geometry. He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Münster from 1972 to 1978, received his doctorate there in 1978, and later held professorships at the University of Wuppertal and at Princeton University. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1986 for his proofs of the Mordell conjecture, the Tate conjecture for Abelian varieties over number fields and the Shafarevich conjecture for Abelian varieties over number fields, and he won the Abel Prize in 2026 for these achievements.
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He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1986 for his proofs of the Mordell conjecture and several related conjectures.
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This was conjectured in 1922 by Louis Mordell, and known as the Mordell conjecture until its 1983 proof by Gerd Faltings.
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