Mathematician:Klaus Friedrich Roth
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Mathematician
German-born British mathematician who won the Fields Medal for proving Roth's theorem on the Diophantine approximation of algebraic numbers.
Fields Medal
Klaus Friedrich Roth was awarded a Fields Medal in $\text {1958}$ at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom:
- For solving a famous problem of number theory, namely, the determination of the exact exponent in the Thue-Siegel inequality.
Nationality
German
History
- Born: 29 October 1925 in Breslau, Province of Lower Silesia, Weimar Germany
- Died: 10 November 2015 in Inverness, Scotland
Theorems and Definitions
- Roth's Theorem on Diophantine Approximation to Algebraic Numbers
- Roth's Theorem on Arithmetic Progressions
- Thue-Siegel-Roth Theorem (with Axel Thue and Carl Ludwig Siegel)
Results named for Klaus Friedrich Roth can be found here.
Definitions of concepts named for Klaus Friedrich Roth can be found here.
Publications
- 1966: Sequences (with Heini Halberstam)