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Christian Reiher

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Christian Reiher
Reiher in Oberwolfach, 2012
Born (1984-04-19) 19 April 1984 (age 40)
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Rostock
LMU Munich
Known forProving Kemnitz's conjecture
AwardsEuropean Prize in Combinatorics (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Hamburg
Doctoral advisorHans-Dietrich Gronau

Christian Reiher (born 19 April 1984 in Starnberg) is a German mathematician. He is the fifth most successful participant in the history of the International Mathematical Olympiad, having won four gold medals in the years 2000 to 2003 and a bronze medal in 1999.[1]

Just after finishing his Abitur, he proved Kemnitz's conjecture, an important problem in the theory of zero-sums.[2] He went on to earn his Diplom in mathematics from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Reiher received his Dr. rer. nat. from the University of Rostock under supervision of Hans-Dietrich Gronau [de] in February 2010 (Thesis: A proof of the theorem according to which every prime number possesses property B)[3] and works now at the University of Hamburg.[4]

Selected publications

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  • ——— (2007), "On Kemnitz' conjecture concerning lattice-points in the plane", The Ramanujan Journal, 13 (1–3): 333–337, arXiv:1603.06161, doi:10.1007/s11139-006-0256-y, S2CID 119600313.

References

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  1. ^ Christian Reiher's results at International Mathematical Olympiad
  2. ^ See reviews of Reiher (2007) by Christian Elsholtz, MR2281170, and Arnfried Kemnitz, Zbl 1126.11011
  3. ^ Christian Reiher at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ "Christian Reiher", Mathematics Staff, University of Hamburg, retrieved 22 May 2024