Helmut Koch

Helmut V. Koch (5 October 1932 – 12 November 2024) was a German mathematician who specialised in number theory.

He studied under Hans Reichardt and Igor Shafarevich (1960–61 in Moscow).

The famous "Number Theory" textbook by Shafarevich and Borevich was translated by Koch from Russian into German.

Koch was from 1969 to 1991 the head of the research group at the Institute for Mathematics and from 1992 to 1996, the head of a working group at the Humboldt University, where he became a full professor in 1992.

He was a full member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Academia Europaea, and the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.