Gerd Faltings

Gerd Faltings
Gerd Faltings
	Faltings in 2005
Born	28 July 1954; Gelsenkirchen-Buer, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
Education	University of Münster (Dip, Dr. rer. nat.)
Known for	Almost ring; Faltings height; Faltings' annihilator theorem; Faltings' theorem; Faltings' product theorem;
Spouse	Angelika Tschimmel (m. 1984; died 2011)
Awards	Dannie Heineman Prize (1983); Fields Medal (1986); ICM Speaker (1986, 1994); Guggenheim Fellowship (1988); Leibniz Prize (1996); Von Staudt Prize (2008); Heinz Gumin Prize (2010); King Faisal International Prize (2014); Shaw Prize (2015); ForMemRS (2016); Cantor Medal (2017); Pour le Mérite (2024); Abel Prize (2026);
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Max Planck Institute for Mathematics; University of Bonn; Princeton University; University of Wuppertal;
Theses	Über Macaulayfizierung (1978); Formale Geometrie und homogene Räume (1980);
Doctoral advisor	Hans-Joachim Nastold
Doctoral students	Michael J. Larsen; Shinichi Mochizuki; Wiesława Nizioł; Nikolai Durov;

Gerd Faltings (German: [ɡɛʁt ˈfaltɪŋs] ^ⓘ; born 28 July 1954) is a German mathematician known for his work in arithmetic geometry. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1986 for his proofs of the Mordell conjecture and several related conjectures. He won the Abel Prize in 2026 for these achievements.