Thomas Zink
Thomas Zink (born April 14, 1949 in Berlin ) is Professor of Mathematics at Bielefeld University . His research area is arithmetic algebraic geometry .
Live and act
Zink received his doctorate in 1981 at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Berlin ( On the poor reduction of Shimura manifolds ). Then he was at the Weierstrass Institute of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin and became a professor in Bielefeld after the fall of the Wall . He has already conducted research in Princeton, Toronto and Bonn, among others. Together with Michael Rapoport he opened up the so-called Rapoport zinc rooms .
He became known in professional circles when he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation in 1992 together with Christopher Deninger ( Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität zu Münster ), Michael Rapoport ( Bergische Universität Wuppertal ) and Peter Schneider ( University of Cologne ). The four researchers, all specialists in the field of algebraic arithmetic geometry, succeeded in transferring modern methods of algebraic geometry to the solution of Diophantine equations .
In particular, he deals with p-divisible groups and Shimura varieties .
Thomas Zink has also been a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 2003 .
Fonts
- Cartier theory of commutative formal groups , Teubner 1984
- Etale cohomology and duality in number fields , as an appendix in: Klaus Haberland Galois cohomology of algebraic number fields , Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1978
- with M. Rapoport: Period spaces for p-divisible groups , Annals of Mathematics Studies 141, Princeton 1996
- Cartier theory on perfect rings I, II , Karl Weierstrass Institute for Mathematics, Berlin 1986
- with H. Reimann: The Dieudonnemodul of a polarized Abelian manifold of the CM type , Annals of Mathematics, Volume 128, 1988, pp. 461-482
- A Dieudonne theory for p-divisible groups , in: Class Field Theory, Its Centenary and Prospect , Advanced Studies in Pure> Mathematics, Tokyo 2000, pp. 1–22
Web links
- Homepage of Thomas Zink
- List of all Leibniz Prize winners including reasons for the awards (DFG) ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 7.52 MB)
- Literature by and about Thomas Zink in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE: Michael Rapoport: "At some point I don't understand anything anymore, then I stop". Retrieved February 14, 2019 .
- ^ Member entry by Thomas Zink at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 28, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zink, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician, Leibniz Prize winner and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |