Alexander Schmidt (mathematician)

Alexander Schmidt (* 1965 in Berlin ) is a German mathematician who deals with algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry.

Schmidt attended the Heinrich-Hertz-Oberschule in East Berlin, a special school for mathematics. In 1984 he received the bronze medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad in Prague. He studied mathematics at the Humboldt University of Berlin with a diploma in 1991. In 1993 he received his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg under Kay Wingberg ( positively branched extensions of algebraic number fields ). He was then a research associate and later assistant at the chair of Prof. Wingberg. He was also a Heisenberg fellow from 2002 to 2004. In 2000 he completed his habilitation at the University of Heidelberg (with a thesis on the connection between algebraic cycle theory and higher-dimensional class field theory), was a private lecturer there, in 2001 he was a deputy professor at the University of Cologne and became a professor at the University of Regensburg in 2004 and is now a professor at the University of Heidelberg.

Schmidt deals with algebraic number theory and, together with Kay Wingberg and Jürgen Neukirch, is the author of a standard work on Galois cohomology in algebraic number theory. In 2011 he got the new edition of Jürgen Neukirch's standard work on class field theory and wrote an introduction to algebraic number theory.

From algebraic number theory (which deals with the one-dimensional case of class field theory ) he also went over to higher-dimensional class field theory, where he worked with Moritz Kerz , among others .

Fonts

• Introduction to Algebraic Number Theory , Springer Verlag 2007
• with Kay Wingberg , Jürgen Neukirch : Cohomology of number fields . Springer, Basic Teachings of Mathematical Sciences, 2000, 2nd edition, 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-37888-4
• Editing of the new edition of Jürgen Neukirch's class field theory , Springer Verlag 2011

Web links

• Homepage in Heidelberg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Regensburger Universitätszeitung 2004, pdf
2. ^ History of Heinrich Hertz Gymnasium . In the foreword to his book Introduction to Algebraic Number Theory , he thanks Reinhard Bölling for teaching the beginnings of the theory at Heinrich Hertz Gymnasium.