Michael Artin
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 Michael Artin (photo by George Bergman)
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| Born | 1934 (age 77–78) Hamburg, Germany |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | MIT |
| Alma mater | Harvard University Princeton University |
| Doctoral advisor | Oscar Zariski |
| Doctoral students | Eric Friedlander David Harbater Rick Miranda Zinovy Reichstein |
| Notable awards | Harvard Centennial Medal (2005) Steele Prize (2002) |
Michael Artin (born 1934) is an American mathematician and a professor emeritus in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology mathematics department, known for his contributions to algebraic geometry.[1] and also generally recognized as one of the outstanding professors in his field.
Artin was born in Hamburg, Germany, and brought up in Indiana.[citation needed] His father was Emil Artin, preeminent algebraist of the 20-th century.[citation needed] He did his undergraduate studies at Princeton University, receiving an A.B. in 1955; he then moved to Harvard University, where he received a Ph.D. in 1960 under the supervision of Oscar Zariski.[1][2]
In the early 1960s Artin spent time at the IHÉS in France, contributing to the SGA4 volumes of the Séminaire de géométrie algébrique, on topos theory and étale cohomology. His work on the problem of characterising the representable functors in the category of schemes has led to the Artin approximation theorem, in local algebra. This work also gave rise to the ideas of an algebraic space and algebraic stack, and has proved very influential in moduli theory. Additionally, he has made contributions to the deformation theory of algebraic varieties. He is currently[update] working on noncommutative rings, especially geometric aspects.[citation needed]
In 2002, Artin won the American Mathematical Society's annual Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement. In 2005, he was awarded the Harvard Centennial Medal. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1969),[3] the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.[1]
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- ^ a b c Faculty profile, MIT mathematics department, retrieved 2011-01-03
- ^ Michael Artin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
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- Harvard Centennial Medal recipients
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Fellows of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- American people of Armenian descent
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- German people of Austrian descent
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- 1934 births
- Living people
- Presidents of the American Mathematical Society
