Karl-Otto Stöhr (born 9 May 1942) is a German

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working on

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. He is a titular researcher at the

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. Stöhr is a titular member of the

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and has received Brazil's National Order of Scientific Merit. He is also a member of the European Academy of Sciences.European Academy of Sciences
/ref> He obtained his Ph.D. at the

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in 1967 under the guidance of

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and

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.Mathematics Genealogy Project
/ref> Arnaldo Garcia was a student of his.

Selected papers

*With J. F. Voloch: "Weierstrass points and curves over finite fields" (1986) *"On the poles of regular differentials of singular curves" (1993)

References

20th-century German mathematicians 21st-century German mathematicians University of Bonn alumni Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada researchers Members of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences Algebraic geometers 1942 births Living people Scientists from Koblenz {{Germany-academic-bio-stub