Wolfgang M. Schmidt | |
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| Born | 3 October 1933 Vienna, Austria |
| Alma mater | University of Vienna |
| Known for | Subspace theorem Davenport–Schmidt theorem |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics, Number Theory |
| Institutions | University of Colorado at Boulder |
| Doctoral advisor | Edmund Hlawka |
Wolfgang M. Schmidt (born 3 October 1933) is an Austrian mathematician working in the area of number theory. He studied mathematics at the University of Vienna, where he received his PhD, which was supervised by Edmund Hlawka, in 1955. Wolfgang Schmidt is a Professor Emeritus from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of Sciences.