Mathematician:Oscar Zariski

Mathematician

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

Wolf Prize

Oscar Zariski was awarded a Wolf Prize for Mathematics in $\text {1981}$:

Creator of the modern approach to algebraic geometry, by its fusion with commutative algebra.

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 Bernhard Riemann)

Results named for Oscar Zariski can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Oscar Zariski can be found here.

Publications

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

Also known as

Originally Oscher (or Ascher) Zaritsky.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Oscar Zariski": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive