Role Mathematician | Education University of Bonn Name Peter Scholze Fields Mathematics | |
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Notable awards Fermat Prize (2015)Ostrowski Prize (2015)Cole Prize (2015)Clay Research Award (2014)SASTRA Ramanujan Prize (2013)Prix and Cours Peccot (2012) Similar People Michael Rapoport, Lisa Sauermann, Ian Agol | ||
Doctoral advisor Michael Rapoport | ||
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Peter Scholze (born 11 December 1987) is a German mathematician known for his work in arithmetic algebraic geometry. He is a professor at the University of Bonn and has been called one of the leading mathematicians in the world.
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Life
Peter Scholze attended Heinrich-Hertz-Gymnasium in Berlin-Friedrichshain, a gymnasium with a mathematical/natural-scientific profile. As a student, he participated in the International Mathematics Olympiad, winning three gold medals and one silver medal.
He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Bonn in 2012 under the supervision of Michael Rapoport. He had completed his Bachelor's degree in three semesters and his Master's degree in two further semesters.
Work
Scholze's work concentrated on purely local aspects of arithmetic geometry such as p-adic geometry and its applications. He presented in a more compact form some of previous fundamental theories pioneered by Gerd Faltings, Jean-Marc Fontaine and later by Kiran Kedlaya. His PhD thesis on perfectoid spaces yields the solution to a special case of the weight-monodromy conjecture.
He was made full professor in 2012, shortly after completing his PhD, becoming the youngest full professor in Germany, at the age of 24.
Awards
From July 2011 until 2016, Scholze was a Research Fellow of the Clay Mathematics Institute. In 2012, he was awarded the Prix and Cours Peccot. He was awarded the 2013 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize. In 2014, he received the Clay Research Award. In 2015, he was awarded the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra, and the Ostrowski Prize.
He received the Fermat Prize 2015 from the Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse. He was awarded a Leibniz Prize 2016 by the German Research Foundation. At the same time, he declined the "New Horizons in Mathematics Prize" of the Breakthrough Prizes in 2016.