About Peter Schneider
Born 1953. Peter Schneider is a German mathematician and university teacher.
Peter Bernd Schneider (born 9 January 1953 in Karlsruhe) is a German mathematician, specializing in the p-adic aspects of algebraic number theory, arithmetic algebraic geometry, and representation theory.
Education and career Peter Schneider studied mathematics in Karlsruhe and Erlangen. After his Diplom in 1977 from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Schneider habilitated in 1982 at the University of Regensburg. He was a postdoc at Harvard University for the academic year 1983–1984 and a C2-professor at Heidelberg University for the academic year 1984–1985. He was a C4-professor from 1985 to 1994 at the University of Cologne and is since 1994 a C-4 professor at the University of Münster. and the Academia Europaea.
Selected publications Articles with U. Stuhler: with U. Stuhler: with J. Teitelbaum: with J. Teitelbaum:
Books
p-adic Lie groups, Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, Springer Verlag, 2011
Galois Representations and (φ,Γ)-modules. Vol. 164. Cambridge University Press, 2017 as editor, with Norbert Schappacher and Michael Rapoport: Beilinson’s conjectures on special values of L-functions, Academic Press, Boston 1988, (Oberwolfach-Tagung; Perspectives in Mathematics 4); 2014 reprint as editor, with John H. Coates, Sujatha Ramdorai, and Otmar Venjakob:
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German mathematician (1953- )
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