Martin Maximilian Emil Eichler (29 March 1912 – 7 October 1992) was a German number theorist.

Martin Eichler
Martin Eichler
Born(1912-03-29)29 March 1912
Died7 October 1992(1992-10-07) (aged 80)
NationalityGerman
Scientific career
FieldsNumber theory and Mathematics

Eichler received his Ph.D. from the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg in 1936.

Eichler and Goro Shimura developed a method to construct elliptic curves from certain modular forms. The converse notion that every elliptic curve has a corresponding modular form would later be the key to the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.[1][2]

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