- Wolfgang M. Schmidt
Wolfgang M. Schmidt is a mathematician born in 1933. He studied mathematics at the
University of Vienna , where he received his PhD, which was supervised byEdmund Hlawka , in 1955. Wolfgang Schmidt is professor at theUniversity of Colorado at Boulder and a memberof theAustrian Academy of Sciences and thePolish Academy of Sciences .He was awarded the eighth Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory for work on
Diophantine approximation . He is known for hissubspace theorem .In 1960, he proved that every
normal number in base "r" is normal in base "s" if and only if log "r" / log "s" is a rational number. He also proved the existence of T numbers. His series of papers on irregularities of distribution contained landmark results; see J.Beck and W.Chen, Irregularities of Distribution, Cambridge University Press, for more information.Schmidt is in a small group of number theorists who have been invited to address theInternational Congress of Mathematicians three times. The others areIwaniec , Shimura, and Tate.Books
*"Diophantine approximations and Diophantine equations", Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Springer Verlag 2000
*"Equations Over Finite Fields: An Elementary Approach", 2nd edition, Kendrick Press 2004
*"On normal numbers." Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 10:661-672, 1960.
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