This article is about the mathematician. For the music journalist, see Barry Mazor.
Barry Charles Mazur
Mazur in 1992
Born
(1937-12-19) December 19, 1937 (age 86)
New York City, U.S.
Alma mater
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Princeton University (PhD)
Known for
Diophantine geometry Generalized Schoenflies conjecture Artin–Mazur zeta function Eilenberg–Mazur swindle Fontaine–Mazur conjecture Mazur manifold Mazur's Conjecture B Mazur's control theorem Mazur's torsion theorem
Awards
Chern Medal (2022) National Medal of Science (2011) Chauvenet Prize (1994) Cole Prize (1982) Veblen Prize (1966)
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematics
Institutions
Harvard University
Doctoral advisor
Ralph Fox R. H. Bing
Doctoral students
Nigel Boston
Noam Elkies
Jordan Ellenberg
David Goss
Fernando Q. Gouvêa
Michael Harris
Naomi Jochnowitz
Daniel Kane
Minhyong Kim
Michael McQuillan
Victor S. Miller
Cathy O'Neil
Glenn H. Stevens
Paul Vojta
Barry Charles Mazur (/ˈmeɪzʊr/; born December 19, 1937) is an American mathematician and the Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University.[1] His contributions to mathematics include his contributions to Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in number theory, Mazur's torsion theorem in arithmetic geometry, the Mazur swindle in geometric topology, and the Mazur manifold in differential topology.
^Hoffman, Jascha (2012). "Q&A: The maths raconteur, Barry Mazur". Nature. 483 (7390): 405. doi:10.1038/483405a.
Barry Charles Mazur (/ˈmeɪzʊr/; born December 19, 1937) is an American mathematician and the Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University....
Galois representations, elliptic curves and modular forms, starting with BarryMazur’s generalizations of Iwasawa theory. In the early 1980s, Wiles moved to...
then earned his PhD in 1987 under the supervision of Benedict Gross and BarryMazur at Harvard University. From 1987 to 1990, Elkies was a junior fellow...
of minus fifteen) is a 2003 popular mathematics book by mathematician BarryMazur The aim of the book is not a history of imaginary numbers but an attempt...
健吉), as part of the theory of cyclotomic fields. In the early 1970s, BarryMazur considered generalizations of Iwasawa theory to abelian varieties. More...
curves. In the early 1970s, the work of Gérard Ligozat, Daniel Kubert, BarryMazur, and John Tate showed that several small values of n do not occur as...
John Stallings, Francisco González-Acuña, Guillermo Torres-Diaz and BarryMazur, and supervised Ken Perko's undergraduate thesis. He was an Invited Speaker...
interested in history of science. He is the brother of BarryMazur and the father of Alexander J. Mazur. Euclid In the Rainforest: Discovering Universal Truth...
Bret Hadley "Epic" Mazur (born August 31, 1970) is an American vocalist, rapper, and record producer. He is best known as a founder and former frontman...
Papakyriakopoulos 1964 Raoul Bott 1966 Stephen Smale 1966 Morton Brown and BarryMazur 1971 Robion Kirby 1971 Dennis Sullivan 1976 William Thurston 1976 James...
bruyn's blog, May 16, 2011, Remarks on the Alexander Polynomial, BarryMazur, c.1964 B. Mazur, Notes on ´etale cohomology of number fields, Ann. scient. ´Ec...
of Iwasawa theory, considered simpler than the original proof due to BarryMazur and Andrew Wiles. Although there are several definitions of special sorts...
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cohomology, jointly with Alexander Grothendieck. He also collaborated with BarryMazur to define étale homotopy theory which has become an important tool in...
called contractible manifolds. The boundary of a Mazur manifold is necessarily a homology 3-sphere. BarryMazur and Valentin Poenaru discovered these manifolds...
error in an influential 1997 paper by Lucia Caporaso, Joe Harris and BarryMazur on the implications of the strong Lang conjecture ("Uniformity of rational...
Harriss Gordon Hamilton Tim Harford Don Knuth Holly Krieger James Maynard BarryMazur Steve Mould Colm Mulcahy Tony Padilla Simon Pampena Matt Parker Roger...
representation theory sustained over a period of almost 50 years." 2022 BarryMazur "For his profound discoveries in topology, arithmetic geometry and number...
Physics 2004 – present Joseph Koerner History of Art 2008 – present BarryMazur Mathematics 2002 – present Gregory Nagy Classics, comparative literature...