Peter Scholze
fl. 1987, Dresden, East Germany
Arithmetic and number theoryAlgebraGeometry
German mathematician who created perfectoid spaces and transformed modern arithmetic geometry.
Peter Scholze introduced perfectoid spaces, a framework that transports difficult questions between characteristic zero and positive characteristic. His work has influenced p-adic geometry, the Langlands program, and arithmetic geometry. He received the 2018 Fields Medal.
Workplaces: University of Bonn
Germany