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Klaus Roth

British mathematician (1925-2015) · Academics · Died at 90

Klaus Friedrich Roth was a German-born British mathematician who won the Fields Medal for proving Roth's theorem on the Diophantine approximation of algebraic numbers. He was also a winner of the De Morgan Medal and the Sylvester Medal, and a Fellow of the Royal Society.

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2015Died10 November 20151991Sylvester MedalAward1983De Morgan MedalAward1960Fellow of the Royal SocietyAward1958Fields medalAward1925Born29 October 1925

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Awards

Sylvester Medal1991
De Morgan Medal1983
Fellow of the Royal Society1960
Fields medal1958

About this person

Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1925 to 2015 · aged 90