Curt Meyer Explained

Curt Meyer
Birth Date:19 November 1919
Birth Place:Bremerhaven, Germany
Death Place:Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Nationality:German
Fields:Mathematics
Workplaces:University of Cologne
Alma Mater:Humboldt University of Berlin
Doctoral Advisor:Helmut Hasse
Doctoral Students:Christopher Deninger

Curt Meyer (19 November 1919 – 18 April 2011) was a German mathematician. He made notable contributions to number theory.

A native of Bremerhaven, Meyer obtained his doctorate from the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1950, under supervision of Helmut Hasse. In 1966 he became professor of mathematics at the University of Cologne, a position he held until 1985.

Among his most important results is an alternative solution to the class number 1 problem, building on the original Stark–Heegner theorem.[1]

Books by Meyer

Notes and References

  1. Meyer . Curt . 3 . 1970 . Bemerkungen zum Satz von Heegner-Stark über die imaginär-quadratischen Zahlkörper mit der Klassenzahl Eins . . 1970 . 242 . 179–214 . 10.1515/crll.1970.242.179 . 118890772 .
  2. Iwasawa, K.. Kenkichi Iwasawa. Review: Die Berechnung der Klassenzahl abelscher Körper über quadratischen Zahlkörpern. By Curt Meyer. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.. 1958. 64. 4. 211–212. 10.1090/s0002-9904-1958-10216-5. free.