Klaus Roth
Klaus Roth · Science & Medicine
Number theory; Roth's theorem on Diophantine approximation (Fields Medal)
1925, Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) — 2015, Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom
United Kingdom (Imperial College London)
Klaus Roth is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Number theory; Roth's theorem on Diophantine approximation (Fields Medal)
Roth proved in 1955 the definitive theorem on how closely irrational algebraic numbers can be approximated by rationals — Roth's theorem in Diophantine approximation — for which he received the 1958 Fields Medal, becoming the first British winner. Born into a Jewish family in Breslau, he was brought to England as a small child when his family fled Nazi Germany. He spent his career at University College London and Imperial College London.
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Number theory; Roth's theorem on Diophantine approximation (Fields Medal)
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