Mathematician:Barry Charles Mazur

Mathematician

American mathematician who has worked in geometric topology and arithmetic topology.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: 19 December 1937 in New York, New York, USA

Theorems and Definitions

• Fontaine-Mazur Conjecture (with Jean-Marc Fontaine)
• Mazur's Control Theorem
• Eilenberg-Mazur Swindle (with Samuel Eilenberg)

Publications

• 1995: Geometric Galois representations (with Jean-Marc Fontaine)
• 1997: An Introduction to the Deformation Theory of Galois Representations (Modular Forms and Fermat's Last Theorem pp. 243 – 311) (edited by Gary Cornell, Joseph H. Silverman and Glenn Stevens)
• 2003: Imagining Numbers

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Barry Charles Mazur": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive