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'{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2018}} {{Distinguish|Peter Scholz}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Peter Scholze | image = Peter Scholze (cropped).jpg | caption = Peter Scholze in 2014 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1987|12|11|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Dresden]], [[East Germany]] | nationality = [[Germany|German]] | fields = [[Mathematics]]<br/>[[Arithmetic geometry]]<br/>[[Algebraic geometry]]<br/>[[Number theory]] | workplaces = University of Bonn<br/>[[Max Planck Institute for Mathematics]]<br/>[[Academy of Sciences Leopoldina]]<br/>[[University of California, Berkeley]]<br/>[[Clay Mathematics Institute]] | alma_mater = [[University of Bonn ]] | known_for = Introduction of [[perfectoid space]]s | thesis_title = Perfectoid Spaces | thesis_url = https://www.math.uni-bonn.de/people/scholze/PerfectoidSpaces.pdf | thesis_year = 2011 | doctoral_advisor = [[Michael Rapoport]]<ref name="mathgenea">{{MathGenealogy|id=160930|title=Peter Scholze}}.</ref> | awards = Prix and [[:fr:Cours Peccot|Cours Peccot]] (2012)<br />[[SASTRA Ramanujan Prize]] (2013)<br /> [[Clay Research Award]] (2014) <br />[[Cole Prize]] (2015) <br /> [[Fermat Prize]] (2015) <br /> [[Ostrowski Prize]] (2015) <br />[[EMS Prize]] (2016) <br /> [[Leibniz Prize]] (2016) <br />[[Berlin-Brandenburg Academy Award]] (2016)<br/>[[Fields Medal]] (2018) | children = 1 }} '''Peter Scholze''' (born 11 December 1987)<ref>{{cite web |title=Prof. Dr. Peter Scholze |url=http://www.hcm.uni-bonn.de:80/people/faculty/hausdorff-chairs/profile/peter-scholze/ |publisher=[[Hausdorff Center for Mathematics]] |access-date=1 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170426161858/http://www.hcm.uni-bonn.de/people/faculty/hausdorff-chairs/profile/peter-scholze/ |archive-date=26 April 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> is a German [[mathematician]] known for his work in [[arithmetic geometry]]. He has been a professor at the [[University of Bonn]] since 2012 and director at the [[Max Planck Institute for Mathematics]] since 2018. He has been called one of the leading mathematicians in the world of [[algebraic geometry]].<ref name="onlinede">{{cite web |title=Mathematiker Peter Scholze (24) nimmt Ruf nach Bonn an – als jüngster deutscher W3-Professor |url=https://idw-online.de/de/news501513 |website=[[Informationsdienst Wissenschaft]] |access-date=1 August 2018 |language=de |date=15 October 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Leibniz Prize 2016: Professor Dr. Peter Scholze |url=https://www.dfg.de/en/funded_projects/prizewinners/leibniz_prize/2016/scholze/index.html |publisher=[[Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft]] |access-date=1 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.quantamagazine.org/peter-scholze-becomes-one-of-the-youngest-fields-medalists-ever-20180801/|last=Klarreich|first=Erica|title=A Master of Numbers and Shapes Who Is Rewriting Arithmetic|work=Quanta Magazine|date=1 August 2018|access-date=2 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Kaschel |first1=Helena |title=Don't call me a prodigy: the rising stars of European mathematics |url=https://www.dw.com/en/dont-call-me-a-prodigy-the-rising-stars-of-european-mathematics/a-19421389 |access-date=2 August 2018 |work=Deutsche Welle |date=23 July 2016 |language=en}}</ref> He won the [[Fields Medal]] in 2018, which is regarded as the highest professional honor in mathematics.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Ball |first=Philip |title=Iranian is first woman to nab highest prize in maths |url=https://www.nature.com/news/iranian-is-first-woman-to-nab-highest-prize-in-maths-1.15686 |journal=Nature |language=en |date=12 August 2014 |access-date=4 November 2018 |doi=10.1038/nature.2014.15686}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |url=http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/FieldsMedal.html |title=Fields Medal |publisher=School of Mathematics and Statistics – University of St Andrews, Scotland |access-date=29 March 2018}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |url=https://www.uchicago.edu/about/accolades/14/ |title=Fields Medal |publisher=The University of Chicago |language=en |access-date=29 March 2018}}</ref> == Early life and education == Scholze was born in [[Dresden]] and grew up in [[Berlin]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Zwei Forscher der Uni Bonn erhalten den Leibniz-Preis |url=https://www.uni-bonn.de/neues/279-2015 |publisher=Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn |access-date=1 August 2018 |language=de |date=10 December 2015 |quote=Peter Scholze wurde 1987 in Dresden geboren und wuchs auf in Berlin.}}</ref> His father is a [[physicist]], his mother a [[computer scientist]], and his sister studied [[chemistry]].<ref>{{cite web |author=Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques |title=Interview at CIRM: Peter Scholze |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0QdTYZIfIM |publisher=[[YouTube]] |access-date=23 December 2018 |date=29 June 2015|author-link=Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques }}</ref> He attended the {{Interlanguage link multi|Heinrich-Hertz-Gymnasium|de|3=Heinrich-Hertz-Gymnasium (Berlin)}} in [[Friedrichshain|Berlin-Friedrichshain]], a [[Gymnasium (Germany)|gymnasium]] devoted to mathematics and science.<ref name="tagesspiegel">{{cite news |title=Mit ihm kann man rechnen |url=https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/mit-ihm-kann-man-rechnen/629972.html |access-date=1 August 2018 |work=[[Der Tagesspiegel]] |date=3 August 2005 |language=de}}</ref> As a student, Scholze participated in the [[International Mathematical Olympiad]], winning three gold medals and one silver medal.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://imo-official.org/participant_r.aspx?id=7867|title=International Mathematical Olympiad|last=Dolinar|first=Gregor|website=International Mathematical Olympiad|access-date=1 August 2018}}</ref> He studied at the [[University of Bonn]] and completed his [[Bachelor's degree]] in three semesters and his [[Master's degree]] in two further semesters.<ref name="Spiegel2012">{{Cite news|url=http://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/studium/24-jaehriges-mathe-genie-wird-deutschlands-juengster-professor-a-861373.html|title=Mathe-Genie: 24-Jähriger wird Deutschlands jüngster Professor|date=16 October 2012|work=Spiegel Online|access-date=1 August 2018|language=de}}</ref> He obtained his Ph.D. in 2012 under the supervision of [[Michael Rapoport]].<ref name="mathgenea" /> ==Career== From July 2011 until 2016, Scholze was a Research Fellow of the [[Clay Mathematics Institute]] in New Hampshire.<ref>{{cite web |title=Peter Scholze |url=http://www.claymath.org/people/peter-scholze-1 |publisher=[[Clay Mathematics Institute]] |access-date=1 August 2018}}</ref> In 2012, shortly after completing his PhD, he was made full professor at the University of Bonn, becoming at the age of 24 the youngest full professor in Germany.<ref name="onlinede" /><ref name="Spiegel2012" /><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.bild.de/news/inland/mathematiker/mathe-genie-peter-scholze-juengster-professor-bonn-26715142.bild.html |title=Peter Scholze ist erst 24 Jahre alt: Mathe-Genie wird Deutschlands jüngster Professor |date=15 October 2012 |work=Bild |access-date=1 August 2018 |language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/berlin/hochschule-mathematikgenie-aus-berlin,10809148,20602974.html |title=Hochschule: Mathematikgenie aus Berlin |last=Harmsen |first=Torsten |date=15 October 2012 |work=Berliner Zeitung |access-date=1 August 2018 |language=de-DE}}</ref> In Fall 2014, Scholze was appointed the Chancellor's Professor at [[University of California, Berkeley]], where he taught a course on [[P-adic analysis|''p''-adic geometry]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://math.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/peter-scholze |title=Peter Scholze |publisher=Department of Mathematics at University of California Berkeley |language=en |access-date=1 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.math.uni-bonn.de/people/scholze/Berkeley.pdf |title=Berkeley lectures on ''p''-adic geometry |last1=Scholze |first1=Peter |last2=Weinstein |first2=Jared |date=October 2018 |website=University of Bonn |access-date=4 November 2018}}</ref> In 2018, Scholze was appointed as a director of the [[Max Planck Institute for Mathematics]] in Bonn.<ref>{{cite web |title=Peter Scholze new director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics |url=https://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/8461 |publisher=[[Max Planck Institute for Mathematics]] |access-date=11 July 2018 |language=en |date=2 July 2018}}</ref> == Work == Scholze's work has concentrated on purely local aspects of [[arithmetic geometry]] such as [[p-adic number|''p''-adic]] geometry and its applications. He presented in a more compact form some of the previous fundamental theories pioneered by [[Gerd Faltings]], [[Jean-Marc Fontaine]] and later by [[Kiran Kedlaya]]. His PhD thesis on [[perfectoid space]]s<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Scholze |first1=Peter |title=Perfectoid Spaces |journal=[[Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS]] |date=November 2012 |volume=116 |issue=1 |pages=245–313 |doi=10.1007/s10240-012-0042-x}}</ref> yields the solution to a special case of the [[weight-monodromy conjecture]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Scholze|first=Peter|url=http://www.math.uni-bonn.de/people/scholze/CDM.pdf|title=Perfectoid spaces: A survey|website=University of Bonn|access-date=4 November 2018}}</ref> Scholze and [[Bhargav Bhatt (mathematician)|Bhargav Bhatt]] have been developed a theory of [[prismatic cohomology]], which has been described as progress towards [[motivic cohomology]] by unifying [[Singular cohomology]], [[de Rham cohomology]], [[l-adic cohomology|ℓ-adic cohomology]], and [[crystalline cohomology]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sury |first=B. |year=2019 |title=ICM Awards 2018 |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s12045-019-0813-5 |journal=Resonance |language=en |volume=24 |issue=5 |pages=597–605 |doi=10.1007/s12045-019-0813-5 |issn=0971-8044}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2019/03/19/prismatic-cohomology/ |first=Terence |last=Tao |authorlink=Terence Tao |title=Prismatic cohomology |website=Terence Tao's blog |date=March 19, 2019 |accessdate=March 21, 2021}}</ref> == Awards == In 2012, he was awarded the Prix and Cours Peccot.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.college-de-france.fr/media/cours-peccot/UPL1466994975427365342_LISTE_CHRONOLOGIQUE_DES_INTITULES_DES_COURS_PECCOT_DEPUIS_1899_.pdf |title=LISTE CHRONOLOGIQUE DES INTITULES DES COURS PECCOT DEPUIS 1899 |publisher=College de France |lang=fr}}</ref> He was awarded the 2013 [[SASTRA Ramanujan Prize]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Peter Scholze to receive 2013 Sastra Ramanujan Prize |url=http://www.sastra.edu/index.php/headlines-archives/990-peter-scholze-to-receive-2013-sastra-ramanujan-prize |publisher=[[Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy]] |access-date=1 August 2018}}</ref> In 2014, he received the [[Clay Research Award]].<ref>{{cite web |title=2014 Clay Research Awards |url=http://www.claymath.org/events/news/2014-clay-research-awards |publisher=Clay Mathematics Institute |access-date=1 August 2018 |date=14 July 2014}}</ref> In 2015, he was awarded the [[Frank Nelson Cole Prize]] in Algebra,<ref>{{cite web |title=Peter Scholze to Receive 2015 AMS Cole Prize in Algebra |url=http://www.ams.org/news?news_id=2500 |publisher=[[American Mathematical Society]] |access-date=1 August 2018 |date=4 December 2014}}</ref> and the [[Ostrowski Prize]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The prize and the prize winners |url=https://ostrowski.ch/index_e.php?ifile=preis |publisher=Ostrowski Foundation |access-date=1 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Ostrowski Prize 2015: Peter Scholze |url=https://ostrowski.ch/pdf/preis2015.pdf |publisher=Ostrowski Foundation |access-date=1 August 2018}}</ref> He received the [[Fermat Prize]] 2015 from the Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lauréats du Prix Fermat |lang=fr |url=https://www.math.univ-toulouse.fr/spip.php?article737&lang=fr |publisher=[[Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse]] |access-date=1 August 2018}}</ref> In 2016, he was awarded the [[Leibniz Prize]] 2016 by the [[German Research Foundation]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dfg.de/en/service/press/press_releases/2015/press_release_no_58/index.html |title=Leibniz Prizes 2016: DFG Honours Ten Researchers |date=10 December 2015 |publisher=[[Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft]] |access-date=3 January 2016}}</ref> He declined the $100,000 "New Horizons in Mathematics Prize" of the 2016 [[Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics|Breakthrough Prize]]s.<ref>{{Cite web |title= 2016 Breakthrough Prizes |url= https://breakthroughprize.org/News/29 |website= breakthroughprize.org |access-date= 15 November 2015 }}</ref> His turning down of the prize received little media attention.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Woit |first1=Peter |title=2016 Breakthrough Prizes |url=http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=8088 |website=Not Even Wrong |publisher=Department of Mathematics at Columbia University |access-date=3 August 2018 |date=9 November 2015}}</ref> He was awarded the [[Fields Medal]] in 2018,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Chang |first1=Kenneth |title=Fields Medals Awarded to 4 Mathematicians |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/01/science/fields-medals-mathematics.html |access-date=1 August 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=1 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/peter-scholze-deutscher-mathematiker-bekommt-fields-medaille-a-1215660.html |title=Fields-Medaille: Peter Scholze bekommt weltweit höchste Auszeichnung für Mathematiker |last=Dambeck |first=Holger |date=1 August 2018 |work=Spiegel Online |access-date=1 August 2018 |language=de}}</ref> for "transforming arithmetic [[algebraic geometry]] over [[p-adic number|''p''-adic]] fields through his introduction of [[perfectoid space]]s, with application to [[Galois representations]], and for the development of new [[cohomology]] theories".<ref>{{cite web |title=Fields Medals 2018 |url=https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/fields-medal/fields-medals-2018 |publisher=[[International Mathematical Union]] |access-date=2 August 2018}}</ref> In 2019, Scholze received the Great Cross of Merit of the [[Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Bundesverdienstkreuz (Great Cross of Merit) for Peter Scholze |url=https://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/9836 |publisher=Max Planck Institute for Mathematics |access-date=2 April 2020 |date=15 October 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Bekanntgabe vom 1. Oktober 2019 |url=http://www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/Berichte/Bekanntgabe-Ordensverleihung/1910-Verleihungen.html |publisher=[[Bundespräsidialamt]] |access-date=2 April 2020 |language=de}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Peter Scholze erhält das "Große Verdienstkreuz" |url=https://www.hcm.uni-bonn.de/de/hcm-news/peter-scholze-erhaelt-das-grosse-verdienstkreuz/ |publisher=Hausdorff Center for Mathematics |access-date=2 April 2020 |date=2 October 2019 |language=de}}</ref> == Personal life == Scholze is married to a fellow mathematician<ref>{{cite news |last1=Schmundt |first1=Hilmar |title=Bildung: Lieber Mathe als Rockband |url=http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-144430358.html |access-date=15 August 2018 |work=[[Der Spiegel]] |date=23 April 2016 |language=de}}</ref> and has a daughter.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Klarreich |first1=Erica |author-link=Erica Klarreich |title=The Oracle of Arithmetic |url=https://www.quantamagazine.org/peter-scholze-and-the-future-of-arithmetic-geometry-20160628/ |access-date=15 August 2018 |work=[[Quanta Magazine]]|date=28 June 2016}}</ref> == References == {{Reflist|30em}} == External links == * [http://www.math.uni-bonn.de/people/scholze/ Prof. Dr. Peter Scholze], [[University of Bonn]] {{in lang|de}} * [http://www.hcm.uni-bonn.de/people/faculty/hausdorff-chairs/profile/peter-scholze/ Prof. Dr. Peter Scholze], [[Hausdorff Center for Mathematics]] * [https://www.leopoldina.org/de/mitglieder/mitgliederverzeichnis/member/8285/ Prof. Dr. Peter Scholze], [[Academy of Sciences Leopoldina]] {{in lang|de}} *{{IMO results |id=7867 }} *{{citation|url=https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160628-peter-scholze-arithmetic-geometry-profile/|title=The Oracle of Arithmetic|date=28 June 2016|first=Erica|last=Klarreich|author-link=Erica Klarreich|magazine=[[Quanta Magazine]]}} ("Peter Scholze And The Future of Arithmetic Geometry") *{{Scopus id}} *{{citation|url=https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/wissen/interview-mit-peter-scholze--mathematiker-brauchen-eine-hohe-frustrationstoleranz--31114698|title=Interview mit Peter Scholze "Mathematiker brauchen eine hohe Frustrationstoleranz"|date=16 August 2018|first=Michael|last=Hesse|newspaper=[[Berliner Zeitung]]}} *{{citation|url=http://www.claymath.org/library/annual_report/ar2012/ar2012.pdf|title=Annual Report 2012: Interview with Research Fellow Peter Scholze|year=2012|page=12–14|publisher=[[Clay Mathematics Institute]]}} {{Fields medalists}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Scholze, Peter}} [[Category:1987 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Fields Medalists]] [[Category:21st-century German mathematicians]] [[Category:Scientists from Berlin]] [[Category:International Mathematical Olympiad participants]] [[Category:Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]] [[Category:University of Bonn faculty]] [[Category:University of Bonn alumni]] [[Category:Arithmetic geometers]] [[Category:People from Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg]]'