The elegance of mathematics
Peter Scholze, 28, is the youngest scholar ever to receive the Leibniz Prize.
Anyone who advances into new fields of mathematics must reckon with the fact that initially he or she will only be understood by experts. And experts are lauding Peter Scholze’s works “as both plausible and elegant”, so the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the presentation of this year’s Leibniz Prize. At 28 years of age, Scholze is the youngest scholar to receive the prize, the most important German research award, in the 30 years of its existence. Peter Scholze has already answered fundamental questions in arithmetic algebraic geometry that had gone unanswered for decades.
