Peter Scholze is only the second German to have received the Fields Medal in over 80 years. The first German prize winner was Professor Dr. Gerd Faltings in 1986. He is currently director at the Max ...

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) congratulates Prof. Dr. Peter Scholze, professor at the Institute of Mathematics at the University of Bonn and director of the Max ...

Number theorist Peter Scholze, who became Germany’s youngest ever full professor aged 24, and geometrician Caucher Birkar—a Kurdish refugee—are among the winners of this year’s Fields Medals, the most ...

Caucher Birkar, a Cambridge University professor of Iranian Kurdish origin, on Wednesday was named one of four winners of the prestigious Fields medal, often known as the Nobel prize for mathematics.

In 2010, a 22-year-old graduate student named Peter Scholze won widespread acclaim after condensing a 288-page proof into a svelte 37 pages. Two years later, he was hired by his alma mater as a full ...