Mathematician:Pierre Samuel

Mathematician

French mathematician working mainly in the fields of commutative algebra and algebraic geometry.

A second-generation member of the Bourbaki group.

Best known (and greatly appreciated) for the books he wrote.

Politically active in the spheres of social justice and environmentalism.

Nationality

French

History

• Born: 12 Sept 1921, Paris, France
• Died: 23 Aug 2009, Paris, France

Publications

• 1942: Correspondance Conforme de Deux Surfaces à Plans Tangents Parallèles
• La Notion de Multiplicité en Algèbre et en Géometrie Algébrique
• 1947: Ultrafilters and Compactification of Uniform Spaces
• 1953: Algèbre Locale
• 1955: Méthodes d'Algèbre Abstraite en Géométrie Algébrique
• 1958: Commutative Algebra Vol. I (with Oscar Zariski)
• 1960: Commutative Algebra Vol. II (with Oscar Zariski)
• 1963: Anneaux Factoriels
• 1963: Lectures on Old and New Results on Algebraic Curves
• 1968: Unique Factorization
• 1973: Écologie, Détente au Cycle Infernal
• 1975: Le Nucléaire en Questions
• 1975: Amazones, Guerrières et Gaillardes
• 1980: L'Éffet de Serre.

Sources

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