Klaus Roth (1925 to 2015) was a German-born British mathematician who won the Fields Medal for proving Roth theorem on the Diophantine approximation of algebraic numbers. He also contributed to discrepancy theory, the large sieve, and the study of progression-free sets.
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Klaus Friedrich Roth (29 October 1925-10 November 2015) was a German-born British mathematician who won the Fields Medal for proving Roth's theorem on the Diophantine approximation of algebraic numbers.
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