Minhyong Kim

Minhyong Kim is a South Korean mathematician who specialises in arithmetical algebraic geometry. He received his PhD at Yale University in 1990 under the supervision of Serge Lang and Barry Mazur, going on to work in a number of universities, including M.I.T., Columbia, Arizona, Purdue, the Korea Institute for Advanced Study, and UCL (University College London). He is currently Professor of Number Theory and Fellow of Merton College at the University of Oxford, and holds the Yun-san Chair in Mathematics at the Pohang University of Science and Technology.

His most notable contribution to number theory has been the application of arithmetic homotopy to the study of Diophantine problems, 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
• "The motivic fundamental group of P1∖{0,1,∞} and the theorem of Siegel", Inventiones Mathematicae
• "Massey products for elliptic curves of rank 1", Journal of the American Mathematical Society
• "Selmer varieties for curves with CM Jacobians" (with John H. Coates)

References

• Profile Page at Oxford
• CV
• The Mathematical Genealogy Project
• Lecture 1 by Gerd Faltings
• Lecture 2 by Gerd Faltings