Carl Ludwig Siegel
German mathematician
Carl Ludwig Siegel was a German mathematician specialising in analytic number theory. He is known for, amongst other things, his contributions to the Thue–Siegel–Roth theorem in Diophantine approximation, Siegel's method, Siegel's lemma and the... Wikipedia
Born: December 31, 1896, Berlin, Germany
Died: April 4, 1981 (age 84 years), Göttingen, Germany
Education: University of Göttingen (1919–1920) and Humboldt University of Berlin
Award: Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1978)