Mathematician:Oscar Zariski

Mathematician
Russian-born mathematician, highly influential in the fields of algebraic geometry and topology.

Nationality
Russian, later American

History

 * Born: 24 April 1899, Kobrin, Belarus, Russian Empire
 * Died: 4 July 1986, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA

Theorems and Definitions

 * Zariski's Lemma
 * Zariski's Main Theorem
 * Zariski's Theorem on Holomorphic Functions


 * Zariski Ring
 * Zariski Space
 * Zariski Surface
 * Zariski Tangent Space
 * Zariski Topology (that name also used for the finite complement topology)
 * Zariski-Riemann Surface (with )

Publications

 * 1935: Algebraic Surfaces
 * 1958: Introduction to the problem of minimal models in the theory of algebraic surfaces
 * 1958: Commutative Algebra Vol. I (with )
 * 1960: Commutative Algebra Vol. II (with )

Also known as
Originally Oscher (or Ascher) Zaritsky.