17 Facts About Peter Scholze

Peter Scholze has been a professor at the University of Bonn since 2012 and co-director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics since 2018.

Peter Scholze has been called one of the leading mathematicians in the world.

Peter Scholze won the Fields Medal in 2018, which is regarded as the highest professional honor in mathematics.

Peter Scholze's father is a physicist, his mother a computer scientist, and his sister studied chemistry.

Peter Scholze studied at the University of Bonn and completed his bachelor's degree in three semesters and his master's degree in two further semesters.

Peter Scholze was a student of Rapoport, who was a student of Deligne, who was a student of Grothendieck, who was a student of Schwartz; in this chain, Peter Scholze, Deligne, Grothendieck, and Schwartz are all Fields medallists.

From July 2011 until 2016, Peter Scholze was a Research Fellow of the Clay Mathematics Institute in New Hampshire.

In fall 2014, Peter Scholze was appointed the Chancellor's Professor at University of California, Berkeley, where he taught a course on p-adic geometry.

In 2018, Peter Scholze was appointed as a director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn.

Peter Scholze is an Algebraic Geometer at heart and many of his works focus on local aspects of p adic Algebraic Geometry.

Peter Scholze presented in a more compact form some of the previous fundamental theories pioneered by Gerd Faltings, Jean-Marc Fontaine and later by Kiran Kedlaya.

Peter Scholze received the Fermat Prize 2015 from the Institut de Mathematiques de Toulouse.

Peter Scholze declined the $100,000 "New Horizons in Mathematics Prize" of the 2016 Breakthrough Prizes.

Peter Scholze's turning down of the prize received some media attention.

In 2018, at thirty years old, Peter Scholze, who was at the time serving as a mathematics professor at the University of Bonn, became one of the youngest mathematicians ever to be awarded the Fields Medal for "transforming arithmetic algebraic geometry over p-adic fields through his introduction of perfectoid spaces, with application to Galois representations, and for the development of new cohomology theories".

In 2019, Peter Scholze received the Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Peter Scholze is married to a fellow mathematician and has a daughter.