Peter Bernd Schneider (born 9 January 1953 in Karlsruhe) is a German mathematician, specializing in the ''p''-adic aspects of algebraic number theory, arithmetic algebraic geometry, and representation theory.

Education and career

Peter Schneider studied mathematics in Karlsruhe and Erlangen. After his ''

Diplom A ''Diplom'' (, from grc, δίπλωμα ''diploma'') is an academic degree in the German-speaking countries Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and a similarly named degree in some other European countries including Albania, Bulgaria, Belarus ...

'' in 1977 from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, he was an assistant from 1977 to 1983 at the University of Regensburg. There he received in 1980 his PhD with advisor Jürgen Neukirch and dissertation ''Die Galoiscohomologie

p

-adischer Darstellungen über Zahlkörpern'' (The Galois cohomology of

p

-adic representations of number fields). Schneider habilitated in 1982 at the University of Regensburg. He was a postdoc at Harvard University for the academic year 1983–1984 and a C2-professor at Heidelberg University for the academic year 1984–1985. He was a C4-professor from 1985 to 1994 at the University of Cologne and is since 1994 a C-4 professor at the University of Münster. His research includes Iwasawa theory, special values of

L

-functions. and

p

-adic representations (in the latter subject he has collaborated extensively with Jeremy Teitelbaum). In 1992 Schneider, together with Christopher Deninger, Michael Rapoport and

Thomas Zink Thomas Zink (born 14 April 1949 in Berlin) is a German mathematician. He currently holds a chair for arithmetic algebraic geometry at Bielefeld University. He has been doing research at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, at the Unive ...

, received the

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (german: link=no, Förderpreis für deutsche Wissenschaftler im Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Programm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft), in short Leibniz Prize, is awarded by the German Research Foundation to ...

for their work in using arithmetic-algebraic geometry to solve Diophantine equations. In 2006 he was an invited speaker with talk '' Continuous representation theory of p-adic Lie groups'' at the

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...

in Madrid. In 2016 he was elected a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Academia Europaea.

Selected publications

Articles

* with U. Stuhler: * with U. Stuhler: * with J. Teitelbaum: * with J. Teitelbaum: *

Books

*
''p-adic Lie groups''
Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, Springer Verlag, 2011 *
''Galois Representations and (φ,Γ)-modules''
Vol. 164. Cambridge University Press, 2017 * as editor, with

Norbert Schappacher Norbert Schappacher (born 8 October 1950 in Essen) is a German mathematician and historian of mathematics. He was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010 in Hyderabad. Education and career After secondary educat ...

and Michael Rapoport: ''Beilinson’s conjectures on special values of L-functions'', Academic Press, Boston 1988, (Oberwolfach-Tagung; Perspectives in Mathematics 4)
2014 reprint
* as editor, with John H. Coates,

Sujatha Ramdorai Sujatha Ramdorai (born 1962) is an algebraic number theorist known for her work on Iwasawa theory. She is a professor of mathematics and Canada Research Chair at University of British Columbia, Canada. She was previously a professor at Tata I ...

, and Otmar Venjakob:

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schneider, Peter 20th-century German mathematicians 21st-century German mathematicians Arithmetic geometers University of Erlangen-Nuremberg alumni University of Regensburg alumni Academic staff of the University of Münster Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners Members of Academia Europaea 1953 births Living people Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina