Pietro Corvaja

Pietro Corvaja (born 19 July 1967 in Padua, Italy) is an Italian mathematician working in Diophantine geometry. He is a professor of geometry at the University of Udine.

Early life and education Corvaja was born in Padua, Italy on 19 July 1967.

After a one year scholarship at INdAM from 1989 to 1990, Corvaja completed his PhD under Michel Waldschmidt and Michel Laurent at Pierre and Marie Curie University in 1995.

Research Corvaja and Zannier gave a new proof of Siegel's theorem on integral points in 2002 by using a new method based on the subspace theorem.

Awards Corvaja was inducted into the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti on 26 May 2016.

Selected publications with J. Noguchi: A new unicity theorem and Erdős' problem for polarized semi-abelian varieties, Math. Ann., vol. 353, no. 2 (2012), pp. 439–464. with U. Zannier: A subspace theorem approach to integral points on curves, Compte Rendu Acad. Sci., vol. 334, 2002, pp. 267–271 with U. Zannier: Finiteness of Integral Values for the Ratio of Two Linear Recurrences, Inventiones Mathematicae, vol. 149, 2002, pp. 431–451. with U. Zannier: On Integral Points on Surfaces, Annals of Mathematics, Vol. 160, 2004, pp. 705–726. arXiv preprint with U. Zannier: On the rational approximations to the powers of an algebraic number: solution of two problems of Mahler and Mendès France, Acta Mathematica, vol. 193, no. 2, 2004, pp. 175–191. with U. Zannier: Some cases of Vojta's conjecture on integral points over function fields, Journal of Algebraic Geometry, vol. 17, 2008, pp. 295–333. arXiv preprint