Gerd Faltings

Gerd Faltings
Faltings in 2005
Born	(1954-07-28) 28 July 1954 (age 72) Gelsenkirchen-Buer, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
Education	University of Münster (Dip, Dr. rer. nat.)
Known for	Almost ring Faltings height Faltings' annihilator theorem Faltings' theorem Faltings' product theorem
Spouse	Angelika Tschimmel ​ ​ (m. 1984; died 2011)​
Awards	Dannie Heineman Prize (1983) Fields Medal (1986) ICM Speaker (1986, 1994) Guggenheim Fellowship (1988) Leibniz Prize (1996) Von Staudt Prize (2008) Heinz Gumin Prize (2010) King Faisal International Prize (2014) Shaw Prize (2015) ForMemRS (2016) Cantor Medal (2017) Pour le Mérite (2024) Abel Prize (2026)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Max Planck Institute for Mathematics University of Bonn Princeton University University of Wuppertal
Theses	Über Macaulayfizierung (1978) Formale Geometrie und homogene Räume (1980)
Doctoral advisor	Hans-Joachim Nastold
Doctoral students	Michael J. Larsen Shinichi Mochizuki Wiesława Nizioł Nikolai Durov

Gerd Faltings (de; born 28 July 1954) is a German mathematician. He is known for his work in arithmetic geometry. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1986 for his proofs of the Mordell conjecture. He won the Abel Prize in 2026 for this work as well.

Faltings was born on 28 July 1954 in Gelsenkirchen-Buer, West Germany. From 1972 to 1978, Faltings studied mathematics and physics at the University of Münster.

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