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Klaus Roth. Klaus Friedrich Roth FRS (29 October 1925 – 10 November 2015) was a German-born British mathematician who won the Fields Medal for proving Roth's theorem on the Diophantine approximation of algebraic numbers. He was also a winner of the De Morgan Medal and the Sylvester Medal, and a Fellow of the Royal Society .
Nov 10, 2015 · Klaus Roth came to England when he was young and attended St Paul's School in London from 1939 to 1943. He then went to Peterhouse, Cambridge where he was awarded his BA in 1945 . After graduating, Roth was appointed as an assistant master at the internationally famous Gordonstoun School, which lies 10 km north of Elgin in Scotland.
Klaus Friedrich Roth, who died in Inverness on 10 November 2015 aged 90, made fundamental contributions to different areas of number theory, including diophantine approximation, the large sieve, irregularities of distribution and what is nowadays known as ...
- William Chen, Robert Vaughan
- 2017
Jun 4, 2018 · Klaus Roth, son of Franz and Matilde (née Liebrecht), was born on 29 October 1925, in the German city of Breslau, in Lower Silesia, Prussia, now Wrocław in Poland. To escape from Nazism, he and his parents moved to England in 1933 and settled in London.
- William Chen, Robert Vaughan
- 2018
Klaus Friedrich Roth German-born British mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1958 for his work in number theory. Roth attended Peterhouse College, Cambridge, England (B.A., 1945), and the University of London (M.Sc., 1948; Ph.D., 1950).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jun 27, 2024 · Klaus Friedrich Roth, who died in Inverness on 10 November 2015 aged 90, published five papers in Mathematika during his distinguished career, including three of his most influential. The 1955 paper “Rational approximations to algebraic numbers” was his legendary solution of the famous Siegel conjecture concerning approximation of algebraic numbers by rationals, for which he was awarded the Fields Medal in 1958.
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Klaus Roth, son of Franz and Matilde (n ́ee Liebrecht), was born on 29 October 1925, in the German city of Breslau, in Lower Silesia, Prussia, now Wroclaw in Poland. To escape from Nazism, he and his parents moved to England in 1933 and settled in London.
