Kurt Heegner (16 December 1893 to 2 February 1965) was a German private scholar from Berlin who specialized in radio engineering and mathematics. He is famous for his mathematical discoveries in number theory and, in particular, the Stark-Heegner theorem. Heegner was born in Berlin and died there. In 1952 he published a solution to the class number 1 problem, a classic number theory problem proposed by Gauss. For years his work was not accepted, mainly because he quoted a portion of Heinrich Martin Weber's work that was known to be incorrect, but Bryan Birch, Max Deuring and Harold Stark each noticed that Heegner's solution was essentially correct and explained how to fill in the details.
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He is famous for his mathematical discoveries in number theory and, in particular, the Stark-Heegner theorem.
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It was essentially proven by Kurt Heegner in 1952, but Heegner's proof was not accepted until an academic mathematician Harold Stark published a proof in 1967 which had many commonalities to Heegner's work, though Stark considers the proofs to be different.
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