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Biography

Gerd Faltings studied for his doctorate at the University of Münster, being awarded his Ph.D. in Following the award of his doctorate, Faltings went to the United States where he spent a year doing postdoctoral work as a research fellow at Harvard University in

In Faltings returned to Germany, taking up an appointment as professor of mathematics at the University of Wuppertal. In Faltings was appointed to the faculty at Princeton.

Faltings proved conjectures by Mordell, Shafarevich and Tate during In the same year he received the Danny Heinemen Prize from the Akademie der Wissenschaften, Göttingen.

In Faltings received the highest honour that a young mathematician can receive when he was awarded a Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Berkeley. At the Congress B Mazur gave an address describing the work by Faltings which had led to the award. He received the medal primarily for his proof of the Mordell Conjecture which h