Faltings' theorem
Teorema de Faltings
- Date
- 1983 · confidence high
- Place
- Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Credited to
- Louis J. Mordell
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
Gerd Faltings proved the Mordell conjecture: an algebraic curve of genus greater than one over the rationals has only finitely many rational points.
What it led to
- Faltings's Fields Medal (1986)
- Progress toward Fermat's Last Theorem
- Development of arithmetic geometry
- New techniques in number theory