Cornelius Greither

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

[2] 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

[7] Greither was a full professor at the Universität der Bundeswehr München.