Minhyong Kim is a South Korean mathematician

Mathematician

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 who specialises in arithmetical algebraic geometry. He received his PhD at Yale University

Yale University

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 in 1990 under the supervision of Serge Lang

Serge Lang

Serge Lang was a French-born American mathematician. He was known for his work in number theory and for his mathematics textbooks, including the influential Algebra...

 and Barry Mazur

Barry Mazur

-Life:Born in New York City, Mazur attended the Bronx High School of Science and MIT, although he did not graduate from the latter on account of failing a then-present ROTC requirement. Regardless, he was accepted for graduate school and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1959,...

, going on to work in a number of universities, including M.I.T.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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, Columbia

Columbia University

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, Arizona

University of Arizona

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, Purdue

Purdue University

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, the Korea Institute for Advanced Study

Korea Institute for Advanced Study

The Korea Institute for Advanced Study is an advanced research institute in Korea. It is located on a campus at 207-43 Cheongnyangni 2-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, Korea....

, and UCL (University College London

University College London

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). He is currently Professor of Number Theory and Fellow of Merton College at the University of Oxford

University of Oxford

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, and holds the Yun-san Chair in Mathematics at the Pohang University of Science and Technology

Pohang University of Science and Technology

Pohang University of Science and Technology or POSTECH is a private university, based in Pohang, South Korea, which is dedicated to research and education in science and technology...

.

His most notable contribution to number theory

Number theory

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 has been the application of arithmetic

Arithmetic

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 homotopy

Homotopy

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 to the study of Diophantine problems

Diophantine equation

In mathematics, a Diophantine equation is an indeterminate polynomial equation that allows the variables to be integers only. Diophantine problems have fewer equations than unknown variables and involve finding integers that work correctly for all equations...

, especially to finiteness theorems of the Faltings–Siegel type.

Publications

• "p-adic L-functions and Selmer varieties associated to elliptic curves with complex multiplication", Annals of Mathematics
  Annals of Mathematics
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• "The motivic fundamental group of P1∖{0,1,∞} and the theorem of Siegel", Inventiones Mathematicae
  Inventiones Mathematicae
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• "Massey products for elliptic curves of rank 1", Journal of the American Mathematical Society
  Journal of the American Mathematical Society
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• "Selmer varieties for curves with CM Jacobians" (with John H. Coates)