Cole Prize in Algebra (1944) National Medal of Science (1965) Wolf Prize (1981) Steele Prize (1981)
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematics
Institutions
Johns Hopkins University University of Illinois Harvard University
Doctoral advisor
Guido Castelnuovo
Doctoral students
S. S. Abhyankar Michael Artin Iacopo Barsotti Irvin Cohen Daniel Gorenstein Robin Hartshorne Heisuke Hironaka Steven Kleiman Joseph Lipman David Mumford Maxwell Rosenlicht Pierre Samuel Abraham Seidenberg
Oscar Zariski (April 24, 1899 – July 4, 1986) was a Russian-born American mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century.
OscarZariski (April 24, 1899 – July 4, 1986) was a Russian-born American mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th...
particular, it is not Hausdorff. This topology was introduced primarily by OscarZariski and later generalized for making the set of prime ideals of a commutative...
then Harvard professor OscarZariski to Kyoto University. Hironaka took the opportunity to present his own research to Zariski, who suggested that Hironaka...
University, where he received a Ph.D. in 1960 under the supervision of OscarZariski, defending a thesis about Enriques surfaces. In the early 1960s, Artin...
geometry. The two-volume work Commutative Algebra that he wrote with OscarZariski is a classic. Other books of his covered projective geometry and algebraic...
Mumford then went to Harvard University, where he became a student of OscarZariski. At Harvard, he became a Putnam Fellow in 1955 and 1956. He completed...
were introduced by OscarZariski (1946) under the name "semi-local ring" which now means something different, and named "Zariski rings" by Pierre Samuel (1953)...
Ph.D. at Harvard in 1955. His thesis, written under the direction of OscarZariski, was titled Local uniformization on algebraic surfaces over modular...
Whorf, American linguist, anthropologist, and engineer (d. 1941) 1899 – OscarZariski, Russian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1986) 1900 – Elizabeth...
the Hilbert scheme under the supervision of John Coleman Moore and OscarZariski. He then became a Junior Fellow at Harvard University, where he taught...
commutative algebra, including valuation theory and the theory of ideals by OscarZariski and others in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1949, André Weil posed the landmark...
Zariski, Oscar (1940), "Algebraic varieties over ground fields of characteristic 0", Amer. J. Math., 62: 187–221, doi:10.2307/2371447 Zariski, Oscar (1947)...
surface. In particular, all Zariski surfaces are unirational. They were named by Piotr Blass in 1977 after OscarZariski who used them in 1958 to give...
In algebraic geometry, a Zariski space, named for OscarZariski, has several different meanings: A topological space that is Noetherian (every open set...
He was a professor at Kyoto University. Alongside Wolfgang Krull, OscarZariski, and Masayoshi Nagata, he is famous for his early work in commutative...
Amer. Math. Soc. 31 (9): 558–559. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1925-04116-6. Zariski, Oscar (1930). "Review: S. Lefschetz, Géométrie sur les Surfaces et les Variétés...
"father of life insurance" for his pioneering work on actuarial tables. OscarZariski (1899–1986): American mathematician and one of the most influential...
Rudy Vallée, American singer, actor, and bandleader (b. 1901) July 4 – OscarZariski, Russian mathematician (b. 1899) July 6 – Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician...
Geo-chemist Dsmitry Parchatscheu (* 1985), Belarusian Football player OscarZariski (1899–1986), Mathematician. Among the historical monuments of the city...
influential "Tôhoku paper". In 1957 he was invited to visit Harvard by OscarZariski, but the offer fell through when he refused to sign a pledge promising...
Abraham Adrian Albert (1965–1966) Charles B. Morrey Jr. (1967–1968) OscarZariski (1969–1970) Nathan Jacobson (1971–1972) Saunders Mac Lane (1973–1974)...
mathematician and child prodigy; regarded as the originator of cybernetics OscarZariski (1899–1986) – American mathematician and one of the most influential...
Abraham Adrian Albert (1965–1966) Charles B. Morrey Jr. (1967–1968) OscarZariski (1969–1970) Nathan Jacobson (1971–1972) Saunders Mac Lane (1973–1974)...
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