Florian Pop
Florian Pop (born March 4, 1952 in Zalau ) is a Romanian mathematician .
biography
From 1986 to 1991, Pop was research assistant at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and received his doctorate there in 1987 under Peter Roquette with the dissertation Galoisian characterization - adic closed bodies . In 1991 he completed his habilitation with the habilitation thesis Isomorphisms of stratified absolute Galois groups at the University of Heidelberg , where he was assistant professor in 1991. From 1996 to 2003 he was a professor at the University of Bonn and has been a professor at the University of Pennsylvania since 2003 . Pop became known for his proof of a conjecture by Alexander Grothendieck that the modular spaces of curves are Anabelian , and numerous other works from Anabelian geometry .
In 1993/4, 1995/6 and 2001/2 he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study .
From 1991 to 1996 he was a Heisenberg fellow. In 1996 he received the Gay Lussac von Humboldt Medal. In 2003 he received the Romanian National Order of Merit. Since 2005 he has been an honorary member of the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy of Sciences. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society . In 2013 Pop received a Humboldt Research Award .
Jakob Stix was one of his doctoral students .
literature
- Tamás Szamuely : Groupes de Galois de corps de type fini (d'après Pop) , Séminaire Bourbaki, 923, June 2003
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Florian Pop: Galois characterization -adic closed bodies . J. Reine Angew. Math. 392, 1988, pp. 145-175.
- ↑ Florian Pop: On Grothendieck's conjecture of anabelian birational geometry . Ann. of Math. 138, 1994, pp. 147-185.
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| SURNAME | Pop, Florian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4th 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zalau |