Curt Meyer

For those of a similar name, see Kurt Meyer (disambiguation).

Curt Meyer
Born	19 November 1919(1919-11-19) Bremerhaven
Died	18 April 2011(2011-04-18) (aged 91) Bergisch Gladbach
Nationality	German
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Cologne
Alma mater	Humboldt University of Berlin
Doctoral advisor	Helmut Hasse
Doctoral students	Christopher Deninger Michael Pohst Hans-Joachim Stender

Curt Meyer (19 November 1919 – 18 April 2011) was a German mathematician. He made notable contributions to number theory.

A native of Bremerhaven, Meyer obtained his doctorate from the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1950, under supervision of Helmut Hasse. In 1966 he became professor of mathematics at the University of Cologne, a position he held until 1985.

Among his most important results is an alternative solution to the class number 1 problem, building on the original Stark–Heegner theorem.^[1]

References

1. ^     (1970). "Bemerkungen zum Satz von Heegner-Stark über die imaginär-quadratischen Zahlkörper mit der Klassenzahl Eins". Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik 1970 (242): 179–214. doi:10.1515/crll.1970.242.179. 

External links

• Curt Meyer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

Persondata
Name	Meyer, Curt
Alternative names
Short description	Mathmatician
Date of birth	19 November 1919
Place of birth	Bremerhaven, Germany
Date of death	18 April 2011
Place of death	Bergisch Gladbach, Germany