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Carl Ludwig Siegel

German mathematician (1896-1981) · Germany · Academics · Died at 84

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Carl Ludwig Siegel was a German mathematician specialising in analytic number theory. He is known for, amongst other things, his contributions to the Thue-Siegel-Roth theorem in Diophantine approximation, Siegel's method, Siegel's lemma and the Siegel mass formula for quadratic forms.

A life in dates

1981Died4 April 19811978Wolf Prize in MathematicsAward1964Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of GermanyAward1963Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts orderAward1954Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of NancyAward1896Born31 December 1896

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Awards

Wolf Prize in Mathematics1978
Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany1964
Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order1963
Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Nancy1954
Honorary Doctor of the University of Vienna
Honorary Doctorate of the University of Basel

About this person

Carl Ludwig Siegel was a German mathematician specialising in analytic number theory. He is known for, amongst other things, his contributions to the Thue-Siegel-Roth theorem in Diophantine approximation, Siegel's method, Siegel's lemma and the Siegel mass formula for quadratic forms. He has been named one of the most important mathematicians of the 20th century.

Country
Germany
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1896 to 1981 · aged 84

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