Paul Vojta

Paul Vojta

Paul Vojta is an American mathematician, known for his work in number theory on diophantine geometry and diophantine approximation.

In formulating a number of striking conjectures, he pointed out the possible existence of parallels between the Nevanlinna theory of complex analysis, and diophantine analysis. This was a novel contribution to the circle of ideas around the Mordell conjecture and abc conjecture, suggesting something of large importance to the "integer solutions" (affine space) aspect of diophantine equations. It has been taken up in his own work, and that of others.

He was an undergraduate student at the University of Minnesota, where he was a Putnam Fellow, and a doctoral student at Harvard University (1983). He currently is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Vojta has also written the popular .dvi-previewer xdvi.

External links

* [http://math.berkeley.edu/~vojta/ Vojta's home page]
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