Pierre Samuel
Pierre Samuel | |
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| Born | 12 September 1921 |
| Died | 23 August 2009 (aged 87) Paris |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Known for | Ramanujam–Samuel theorem Hilbert–Samuel function |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Paris |
| Doctoral advisor | Oscar Zariski |
| Doctoral students | Daniel Lazard Artibano Micali Christian Peskine Lucien Szpiro |
Pierre Samuel (12 September 1921[1] – 23 August 2009[2]) was a French mathematician, known for his work in commutative algebra and its applications to algebraic geometry. The two-volume work Commutative Algebra that he wrote with Oscar Zariski is a classic. Other books of his covered projective geometry and algebraic number theory.
Early life and education
Samuel studied at the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly in Paris before attending the École Normale Supérieure where he studied for his Agrégé de mathematique. He received his Master of Arts and then a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1947, under the supervision of Oscar Zariski, with a thesis "Ultrafilters and Compactification of Uniform Spaces".
Career
Samuel ran a
He was a member of the
Samuel was also active in issues of social justice, including concerns about environmental degradation (where he was influenced by Grothendieck), and arms control.[3] He died in Paris in August 2009.[2]
His doctoral students include Lucien Szpiro and Daniel Lazard.
Awards and honors
In 1958 he was an invited speaker (Relations d'équivalence en géométrie algébrique) at the
Works
- Algèbre locale, Mémorial des Sciences Mathématiques, vol. 123, Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1953[5]
- Méthodes d'algèbre abstraite en géométrie algébrique, Berlin: Springer, 1955[6]
- with Oscar Zariski: Commutative algebra I, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol. 28, Berlin, New York: MR 0090581
- with Oscar Zariski: Commutative algebra. Vol. II, Berlin, New York: MR 0389876
- Anneaux factoriels, Publicaçoes da Sociedade de Matematica de São Paulo, 1962
- Théorie algébrique des nombres. Hermann. 1967. ISBN 2-7056-5589-1.
- Écologie: détente ou cycle infernal, Union générale d'éditions, Collection 10-18, 1973
- Amazones, guerrières et gaillardes, éditions Complexe & Presses universitaires de Grenoble, 1975
- Le nucléaire en question, 1980
- Géométrie projective, Presses universitaires de France, 1986
- Colloque en l'honneur de Pierre Samuel, Mém. Société mathématique de France (1989)
References
Further reading
- Colloque en l'honneur de Pierre Samuel, Mem. Math. Soc. Fr. (1989)
- Tangente Magazine
External links
- Pierre Samuel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Pierre Samuel", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
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