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German mathematician (1896–1981)

For the German architecture professor, see Carl August Benjamin Siegel.

Carl Ludwig Siegel (31 December 1896 – 4 April 1981) was a German mathematician specialising in analytic number theory.

He is known for, amongst other things, his contributions to the Thue–Siegel–Roth theorem in Diophantine approximation, Siegel's method,^[1]Siegel's lemma and the Siegel mass formula for quadratic forms. He has been named one of the most important mathematicians of the 20th century.^[2][3]

André Weil, without hesitation, named^[4] Siegel as the greatest mathematician of the first half of the 20th century.

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Atle Selberg said of Siegel and his work:

He was in some ways, perhaps, the most impressive mathematician I have met. I would say, in a way, devastatingly so. The things that Siegel tended to do were usually things that seemed impossible.

Also after they were done, they still seemed almost imposs