Markus Rost is a German mathematician who works at the intersection of
topology and
algebra. He was an
invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2002 in Beijing, China. He is a professor at the
University of Bielefeld.
He is known for his work on
norm varieties In mathematics, a norm variety is a particular type of algebraic variety ''V'' over a field ''F'', introduced for the purposes of algebraic K-theory by Voevodsky. The idea is to relate Milnor K-theory of ''F'' to geometric objects ''V'', having fu ...
(a key part in the proof of the
Bloch–Kato conjecture) and for the
Rost invariant (a cohomological invariant with values in Galois cohomology of degree 3). Together with J.-P. Serre he is one of the cofounders of the theory of cohomological invariants of linear algebraic groups. He has also made numerous contributions to the theory of torsors, quadratic forms, central simple algebras, Jordan algebras (the Rost-Serre invariant), exceptional groups, and essential dimension. Most of his results are available only on his webpage.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the
American Mathematical Society.
List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 7 July 2013.
References
Further reading
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External links
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Markus Rost's homepage
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Living people
21st-century German mathematicians
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Year of birth missing (living people)