Paul Vojta

Paul Alan Vojta, born on 30 September 1957, is an American mathematician known for his work in number theory, in particular Diophantine geometry and Diophantine approximation. In formulating what is now called Vojta's conjecture he pointed out a possible parallel between the Nevanlinna theory of complex analysis and Diophantine analysis in the circle of ideas around the Mordell conjecture and the abc conjecture, which suggested the importance of integer solutions to Diophantine equations. He studied as an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota, where he became a Putnam Fellow in 1977, took his doctorate at Harvard University in 1983, and is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012 and is also the author of the dvi previewer xdvi.