Heinrich-Wolfgang Leopoldt

Heinrich Wolfgang Leopoldt ( born August 22, 1927 in Schwerin, † 28 July, 2011 Unterluess ) was a German mathematician who worked on algebraic number theory.

Leopoldt his doctorate in 1954 at the University of Hamburg with Helmut Hasse. As a post-doc, he was from 1956 to 1958 at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (New Jersey, USA). In 1959 he completed his habilitation at the University of Erlangen and was then at the University of Tübingen. He was from 1964 professor at the University of Karlsruhe, where he was also director of the Mathematical Institute.

Leopoldts studies with Tomio Kubota of the imported by them and named after them p- adic L- functions Dirichlet series are a fundamental building block of Iwasawa theory.

Leopoldt presented to a named after him conjecture on the p- adic analogue of the regulator of an algebraic number field.

Together with Hans Zassenhaus he also studied computer algebra and their applications in number theory.

Leopoldt was with Peter Roquette, the collected works of his teacher Hasse out (De Gruyter, 1975 ). In 1979 he became a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences.

His doctoral include Werner Blum, Hans -Peter Rehm, Heinrich Matzat and Claus Günther Schmidt.