{{short description|American mathematician}} {{ Infobox scientist | name = Paul Vojta | image = Vojta Paul.jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|09|30}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | fields = Mathematics | workplaces = University of California, Berkeley | alma_mater = Harvard University<br>University of Minnesota | doctoral_advisor = Barry Mazur | doctoral_students = | known_for = Vojta's conjecture | awards = Cole Prize (1992)<br>Putnam Fellow }} '''Paul Alan Vojta''' (born September 30, 1957) is an American mathematician, known for his work in number theory on Diophantine geometry and Diophantine approximation.

==Contributions== In formulating Vojta's conjecture, he pointed out the possible existence of parallels between the Nevanlinna theory of complex analysis, and diophantine analysis in the circle of ideas around the Mordell conjecture and abc conjecture. This suggested the importance of the ''integer solutions'' (affine space) aspect of diophantine equations.{{citation needed|date=August 2019}}

Vojta wrote the .dvi-previewer xdvi. He also wrote a vi clone.<ref>{{Citation |last=sylvandb |title=sylvandb/calvin |date=2024-06-07 |url=https://github.com/sylvandb/calvin |access-date=2024-06-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://groups.google.com/g/comp.archives.msdos.announce/c/DMh6BYMgwPc/m/gTMAa0R4XskJ |title=calvin23.zip - Small partial clone of the Unix vi editor |last=Vojta |first=Paul |date=22 December 1997 |access-date=26 November 2024}}</ref>

==Education and career== He was an undergraduate student at the University of Minnesota, where he became a Putnam Fellow in 1977,<ref name="MMA">{{cite web |title=Putnam Competition Individual and Team Winners |url=http://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/putnam-competition-individual-and-team-winners |publisher=Mathematical Association of America |access-date=December 13, 2021 |archive-date=March 12, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312205244/http://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/putnam-competition-individual-and-team-winners |url-status=dead }}</ref> and a doctoral student at Harvard University (1983).<ref>{{MathGenealogy|id=22509}}</ref> He currently is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.

==Awards and honors== In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.<ref>[http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 2013-08-29.</ref>

==Selected publications== * ''Diophantine Approximations and Value Distribution Theory'', Lecture Notes in Mathematics '''1239''', Springer Verlag, 1987, {{isbn|978-3-540-17551-3}}

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==External links== *[http://math.berkeley.edu/~vojta/ Vojta's home page] *{{IMO results|id=10338}}

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