Martin Eichler

Martin Eichler
Martin Eichler
Born	29 March 1912(1912-03-29)
Died	7 October 1992(1992-10-07) (aged 80)
Nationality	German
Fields	Number theory and Mathematics

Martin Eichler (29 March 1912 – 7 October 1992) was a German number theorist.

Eichler received his Ph.D. from the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg in 1936.

Eichler once stated that there were five fundamental operations of mathematics: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and modular forms. He is linked with Goro Shimura in the development of a method to construct elliptic curves from certain modular forms. The converse notion that every elliptic curve has a corresponding modular form would later be the key to the proof of Fermat's last theorem.

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• Obituary (German)

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Name	Eichler, Martin
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Date of birth	29 March 1912
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Date of death	7 October 1992
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