Cornelius Greither

Cornelius Greither (born 1956)^[1] is a German mathematician specialising in Iwasawa theory and the structure of Galois modules.^[2]

Cornelius Greither (2024)

Education and career

Greither completed his PhD in 1983 at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München under the supervision of Bodo Pareigis:^[3] his thesis bears the title Zum Kürzungsproblem kommutativer Algebren.^[4] He habilitated in 1988 at same university, with thesis title Cyclic Galois extensions and normal bases.^[4]

In 1992, Greither proved the Iwasawa main conjecture for abelian number fields in the ${\displaystyle p=2}$ case.^[5][6] In 1999, together with D. R. Rapogle, K. Rubin, and A. Srivastav, he proved a converse to the Hilbert–Speiser theorem.^[7]

Greither was a full professor at the Universität der Bundeswehr München. He retired in 2022,^[8] and he is now an emeritus.^[9][10]

Greither is on the editorial boards of the journals Archivum Mathematicum (Brno),^[2][11] New York Journal of Mathematics,^[2][12] as well as the Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux.^[2][13] Until 2014, he was an associate editor of Annales mathématiques du Québec.^[2][14]