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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.

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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.

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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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