Mathematician:Klaus Friedrich Roth

Mathematician

German-born British mathematician who won the Fields Medal for proving Roth's theorem on the Diophantine approximation of algebraic numbers.

Fields Medal

Klaus Friedrich Roth was awarded a Fields Medal in $\text {1958}$ at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom:

For solving a famous problem of number theory, namely, the determination of the exact exponent in the Thue-Siegel inequality.

Nationality

German

History

• Born: 29 October 1925 in Breslau, Province of Lower Silesia, Weimar Germany
• Died: 10 November 2015 in Inverness, Scotland

Theorems and Definitions

• Roth's Theorem on Diophantine Approximation to Algebraic Numbers
• Roth's Theorem on Arithmetic Progressions

• Thue-Siegel-Roth Theorem (with Axel Thue and Carl Ludwig Siegel)

• Liouville-Roth Constant (with Joseph Liouville)

Results named for Klaus Friedrich Roth can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Klaus Friedrich Roth can be found here.

Publications

• 1966: Sequences (with Heini Halberstam)

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Klaus Friedrich Roth": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive