Gisbert Wüstholz

Gisbert Wüstholz ( born June 4, 1948 in Tuttlingen ) is a German mathematician who mainly deals with number theory.

Life

Wüstholz studied mathematics and physics at the Albert -Ludwigs- University of Freiburg, where he was awarded a degree in 1973 and earned his doctorate under Theodor Schneider, 1977 ( Simultaneous approximations that are related by powers or logarithms ). 1977/78 he worked as a post-doc at the University of Bonn. From 1978 he was an assistant at the University of Wuppertal ( also attended by Gerd Faltings has been a professor since 1982), where he habilitated in 1983 ( the same year the Habilitation in Bonn). After that, he conducted research for two years at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn. In 1985 he became professor of algebra and number theory in Wuppertal. He is since 1987 professor at the ETH Zurich, in 2013 he became Professor Emeritus.

Wüstholz mainly deals with the theory of transcendental numbers, Diophantine approximation and arithmetic algebraic geometry. Early and mid- 1980s, he was instrumental in the ideas that led to the proof of the Analytic Subgroup Theorem. Many results of the theory of transcendental numbers follow from this and similar theorems. Wüstholz worked a lot with David Masser and also with Gerd Faltings.

Wüstholz is since 2000 member of the Leopoldina; still he is a member of the Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. In 1986 he was guest speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM ) in Berkeley ( Algebraic Groups, Hodge Theory and Independence ).

Writings

• As Publisher: A panorama of number theory or the view from Baker 's garden, Cambridge University Press, 2002 ( in Wüstholz: One century of logarithmic forms and Paula B. Cohen, Wüstholz: Application of the André- Oort conjecture to some questions in transcendence )
• Fundamentals of Algebra, Vieweg / Teubner, 2004