Christian Reiher (born 19 April 1984 in Starnberg) is a German mathematician. He is the fifth most successful participant in the history of the International Mathematical Olympiad, having won four gold medals in the years 2000 to 2003 and a bronze medal in 1999.
Just after finishing his Abitur, he proved Kemnitz's conjecture, an important problem in the theory of zero-sums.See reviews of by Christian Elsholtz, , and Arnfried Kemnitz, He went on to obtain his Diplom in mathematics at LMU Munich.
Reiher received his Dr. rer. nat. at the University of Rostock under supervision of in February 2010 (Thesis: A proof of the theorem according to which every prime number possesses property B) and works now at the University of Hamburg.
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