Gerd Faltings

Gerd Faltings commands my unreserved awe. Proving the Mordell conjecture and winning the Fields Medal in 1986, then capping it with the Abel Prize in 2026, places him among the truly elite minds of his era. Arithmetic geometry is forbidding territory, and he ran at its frontier for a lifetime. I cannot pretend to follow the mathematics, but I do not need to in order to feel reverence for someone who devoted a career to expanding the boundaries of human knowledge. People like Faltings remind me how much quiet, monumental work underpins our understanding of the world.

Name (English)

Gerd Faltings

Name (Japanese)

ゲルト・ファルティングス

Reading

げると・ふぁるてぃんぐす

Born

July 28, 1954 (age 72)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Horse

Origin

Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Occupation

mathematician / university teacher

University

University of Münster

Awards & achievements

• 1983 Dannie Heineman Prize
• 1986 Fields medal
• 1988 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1996 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
• 2014 King Faisal International Prize in Science
• 2008 Karl-Georg-Christian-von-Staudt-Preis
• 2010 Heinz Gumin Prize for Mathematics
• 2015 The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences

• Official sitehttp://www.hcm.uni-bonn.de/people/profile/gerd-faltings/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd%20Faltings
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q77137

Tags

• North Rhine-Westphalia
• mathematician
• university teacher

Last updated

2026-06-21

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