Alexander Schmidt (born 1965) is a German mathematician at the University of Heidelberg. His research interests include

algebraic number theory Algebraic number theory is a branch of number theory that uses the techniques of abstract algebra to study the integers, rational numbers, and their generalizations. Number-theoretic questions are expressed in terms of properties of algebraic ob ...

and

algebraic geometry Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics, classically studying zeros of multivariate polynomials. Modern algebraic geometry is based on the use of abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, for solving geometrical ...

Life

Schmidt attended the Heinrich Heinrich-Hertz-Gymnasium in East Berlin, a special school for mathematics. In 1984 he received the bronze medal at the

International Mathematical Olympiad The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is a mathematical olympiad for pre-university students, and is the oldest of the International Science Olympiads. The first IMO was held in Romania in 1959. It has since been held annually, except i ...

in Prague.Geschichte Heinrich Hertz Gymnasium
In the prologue to his book ''Introduction to Algebraic Number Theory'', he thanks Reinhard Bölling for teaching the reasons why he started at Heinrich-Hertz-Gymnasium. He studied mathematics at the Humboldt University in Berlin and was awarded the diploma in 1991. In 1993, he obtained his PhD at the University of Heidelberg by Kay Wingberg (Positive branched extensions of algebraic number fields). He then was a research assistant and later an assistant at the chair of Prof. Wingberg. He was also a Heisenberg fellow from 2002 to 2004. In 2000, he habilitated at the University of Heidelberg (with a thesis on the connection between algebraic cycle theory and higher-dimensional class field theory), was a private lecturer there, 2001 chair at the University of Cologne, and in 2004 became a professor at the University of Regensburg and is now a professor at the University of Heidelberg.

Publications

*''Einführung in die Algebraische Zahlentheorie'', Springer 2007 * with

Kay Wingberg Kay Wingberg (born 1949) is a German mathematician at the University of Heidelberg. His research interests include algebraic number theory, Iwasawa theory, arithmetic geometry and the structure of profinite (or pro-p) groups. Publications ...

and

Jürgen Neukirch Jürgen Neukirch (24 July 1937 – 5 February 1997) was a German mathematician known for his work on algebraic number theory. Education and career Neukirch received his diploma in mathematics in 1964 from the University of Bonn. For his Ph.D. t ...

''Cohomology of number fields''. Springer 2000, second edition 2008, * Editor of the new edition of

's ''Klassenkörpertheorie'', Springer 2011 * Editor of

's ''Class Field Theory - The Bonn Lectures'', Springer Verlag 2011

References

*''The article contains translated materials from the corresponding article in German Wikipedia.''

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