Martin Eichler
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Martin Maximilian Emil Eichler (29 March 1912 ā 7 October 1992) was a German number theorist.
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Born | (1912-03-29)29 March 1912 |
Died | 7 October 1992(1992-10-07) (aged 80) |
Nationality | German |
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Fields | Number theory and Mathematics |
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Eichler received his Ph.D. from the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg in 1936.
Eichler and Goro Shimura developed a method to construct elliptic curves from certain modular forms. The converse notion that every elliptic curve has a corresponding modular form would later be the key to the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.[1][2]