Introduction
Peter Scholze (born 11 December 1987) is a German mathematician known for his work in arithmetic algebraic geometry. He is a professor at the University of Bonn.
Life
Peter Scholze was born in Dresden. He attended Heinrich-Hertz-Gymnasium in Berlin-Friedrichshain, a gymnasium with a mathematical/natural-scientific profile. As a student, he participated in the International Mathematics Olympiad, winning three gold medals and one silver medal.
He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Bonn in 2012 under the supervision of Michael Rapoport.
Work
He became known as a mathematician after finishing his Bachelor's degree in three semesters and his Master's degree in two further semesters. Scholze's subsequent PhD-thesis on perfectoid spaces yields the solution to a special case of the weight-monodromy conjecture.
He was made full professor in 2012, shortly after completing his PhD, becoming the youngest full professor in Germany, at the age of 24.
Awards and honours
Since July 2011, Scholze is a Fellow of the Clay Mathematics Institute. In 2012, he was awarded the Prix and Cours Peccot. He was awarded the 2013 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize. In 2014, he received the Clay Research Award. In 2015, he was awarded the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra, and also the Ostrowski Prize. He declined the "New Horizons in Mathematics Prize" of the Breakthrough Prizes 2016. He received the Fermat Prize 2015 from the Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse.
In December 2015 he was awarded a Leibniz Prize 2016 by the German Research Foundation, Germany's most prestigious research prize.