Markus Rost

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Markus Rost is a German mathematician who works at the intersection of topology and algebra. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2002 in Beijing, China. He is a professor at the University of Bielefeld.

He is known for his work on norm varieties (related to the Bloch-Kato conjecture) and for the Rost invariant. Many of his results are unpublished, and are available only on his webpage. Some of his results have been written up and published by others.[1]

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  1. ^  See for example
  • Skip Garibaldi, Alexander Merkurjev, Jean-Pierre Serre (2003). Cohomological invariants in Galois cohomology. American Mathematical Society. ISBN 0-8218-3287-5. 
  • A.S. Merkurjev (1995). "K-theory of simple algebras". K-theory and algebraic geometry: connections with quadratic forms and division algebras (Santa Barbara, CA, 1992), Proc. Sympos. Pure Math., 58, Part 1: 65–83. American Mathematical Society. 

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