Klaus Roth
German-British mathematician
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Klaus Friedrich Roth FRS was a German-born British mathematician who won the Fields Medal for proving Roth's theorem on the Diophantine approximation of algebraic numbers. He was also a winner of the De Morgan Medal and the Sylvester Medal, and a... Wikipedia
Born: October 29, 1925, Wrocław, Poland
Died: November 10, 2015 (age 90 years), Inverness, United Kingdom
Doctoral advisor: Theodor Estermann
Education: St Paul's School, London; Peterhouse, Cambridge; University College London
Fields: Mathematics
Other academic advisors: John Charles Burkill; Harold Davenport
