Nationality American Role Mathematician | Name Paul Vojta | |
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Born September 30, 1957 (age 67) ( 1957-09-30 ) Alma mater Harvard UniversityUniversity of Minnesota Doctoral students David McKinnonXiangjun Song Books Diophantine Approximations and Value Distribution Theory Education | ||
Paul Alan Vojta (born September 30, 1957) is an American mathematician, known for his work in number theory on diophantine geometry and diophantine approximation.
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Contributions
In formulating a number of striking conjectures, he pointed out the possible existence of parallels between the Nevanlinna theory of complex analysis, and diophantine analysis. This was a novel contribution to the circle of ideas around the Mordell conjecture and abc conjecture, suggesting something of large importance to the integer solutions (affine space) aspect of diophantine equations. It has been taken up in his own work, and that of others.
Vojta has also written the popular .dvi-previewer xdvi.
Education and career
He was an undergraduate student at the University of Minnesota, where he was a Putnam Fellow, and a doctoral student at Harvard University (1983). He currently is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Awards and honors
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.