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5 unusual facts about Peter Roquette


Field arithmetic

Peter Roquette proved the right-to-left direction of this theorem and conjectured the opposite direction.

Heinrich-Wolfgang Leopoldt

Leopoldt with Peter Roquette also edited the collected works of his teacher Hasse (De Gruyter 1975).

Peter Roquette

In 1951/1952 he was an assistant at the Mathematical Research Institute at Oberwolfach and from 1952 to 1954 at the University of Munich.

His doctoral students include Horst-Günter Zimmer, Wulf-Dieter Geyer, Bohuslav Divis, Gerhard Frey, Volker Weispfenning, Henning Stichtenoth, Rainer Weiss Auer, Florian Pop and Franz Lemmermeyer.

In 1958 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Edinburgh (on the topic of Some fundamental theorems on abelian function fields).



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