Published “Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 16,064 times.
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Klaus Roth
Klaus Friedrich Roth was a German-born British mathematician who won the Fields Medal for proving Roth's theorem on the Diophantine approximation of algebraic numbers. He was also a winner of the De Morgan Medal and the Sylvester Medal, and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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science · British mathematician (1925–2015) · mathematician · university teacher · also Klaus Roth, Klaus Friedrich Roth, K. F. Roth, Roth
Born 29 October 1925 · Died 10 November 2015 · Q333968
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2020· 2 entries
Published “Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019” in Journal of the American College of Cardiology — cited 10,317 times.
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2018· 1 entry
Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 11,014 times.
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2017· 1 entry
The editors of the University College London journal Mathematika dedicated a special issue to Roth
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2016· 1 entry
Published “The Cityscapes Dataset for Semantic Urban Scene Understanding” in 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) — cited 9,785 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Died 2015-11-10.
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2009· 1 entry
In honour of Roth's 80th birthday,
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2006· 1 entry
Published “Raman Spectrum of Graphene and Graphene Layers” in Physical Review Letters — cited 13,837 times.
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2002· 2 entries
Khaïry died in 2002, and Roth died in Inverness on 10 November 2015 at the age of 90.
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And Roth died in Inverness on 10 November 2015 at the age of 90
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1999· 1 entry
Published “A More Accurate Method To Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate from Serum Creatinine: A New Prediction Equation” in Annals of Internal Medicine — cited 12,277 times.
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1992· 2 entries
Published “Ordered mesoporous molecular sieves synthesized by a liquid-crystal template mechanism” in Nature — cited 14,897 times.
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Published “A new family of mesoporous molecular sieves prepared with liquid crystal templates” in Journal of the American Chemical Society — cited 9,957 times.
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1991· 2 entries
Won Sylvester Medal (1991).
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The Royal Society gave him their Sylvester Medal "for his many contributions to number theory and in particular his solution of the famous problem concerning approximating algebraic numbers by rationals
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1983· 1 entry
Won De Morgan Medal (1983).
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1966· 1 entry
Heini Halberstam and Roth published their book Sequences, on integer sequences
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1960· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1960).
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And later became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of University College London, Fellow of Imperial College London, and Honorary Fellow of Peterhouse
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1958· 3 entries
Won Fields medal (1958).
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When Roth was given the Fields Medal, Davenport called this result Roth's "greatest achievement"
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For his work on Diophantine approximation
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1955· 3 entries
Roth published what is now known as Roth's theorem, completely settling this question
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Roth married Mélèk Khaïry, who had attracted his attention when she was a student in his first lecture; Khaïry was a daughter of Egyptian senator Khaïry Pacha
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In 1955, Roth married Mélèk Khaïry, who had attracted his attention when she was a student in his first lecture; Khaïry was a daughter of Egyptian senator Khaïry Pacha.
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1950· 1 entry
Studied at University of London (1950).
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1948· 2 entries
Studied at University College London (1946–1948).
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Roth became an assistant lecturer at University College London, and in 1950 he was promoted to lecturer
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1946· 1 entry
To a master's program in mathematics at University College London, where he worked under the supervision of Theodor Estermann
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1945· 1 entry
Studied at Peterhouse (1943–1945).
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1943· 1 entry
Studied at St Paul's School (1939–1943).
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1936· 1 entry
By Paul Erdős and Pál Turán, who conjectured that they must be sparse
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1933· 2 entries
And he was raised and educated in the UK
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To escape the Nazis, and was educated at the University of Cambridge and University College London, finishing his doctorate in 1950
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1925· 1 entry
Born 1925-10-29.
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