Michael Artin

Michael Artin
Michael Artin (photo by George Bergman)
Born	1934 (age 76–77) Hamburg, Germany
Nationality	American
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	MIT
Alma mater	Harvard University Princeton University
Doctoral advisor	Oscar Zariski
Doctoral students	Eric Friedlander David Harbater Rick Miranda Zinovy Reichstein
Notable awards	Harvard Centennial Medal (2005) Steele Prize (2002)

Michael Artin (born 1934) is an American mathematician and a professor emeritus in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology mathematics department, known for his contributions to algebraic geometry.^[1] and also generally recognized as one of the outstanding professors in his field.

Artin was born in Hamburg, Germany, and brought up in Indiana.^{[citation needed]} His father was Emil Artin, preeminent algebraist of the 20-th century.^{[citation needed]} He did his undergraduate studies at Princeton University, receiving an A.B. in 1955; he then moved to Harvard University, where he received a Ph.D. in 1960 under the supervision of Oscar Zariski.^[1][2]

In the early 1960s Artin spent time at the IHÉS in France, contributing to the SGA4 volumes of the Séminaire de géométrie algébrique, on topos theory and étale cohomology. His work on the problem of characterising the representable functors in the category of schemes has led to the Artin approximation theorem, in local algebra. This work also gave rise to the ideas of an algebraic space and algebraic stack, and has proved very influential in moduli theory. Additionally, he has made contributions to the deformation theory of algebraic varieties. He is currently^[update] working on noncommutative rings, especially geometric aspects.^{[citation needed]}

In 2002, Artin won the American Mathematical Society's annual Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement. In 2005, he was awarded the Harvard Centennial Medal. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1969),^[3] the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.^[1]

See also

• Artin stacks
• Artin–Mazur zeta function

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Faculty profile, MIT mathematics department, retrieved 2011-01-03
2. ^ Michael Artin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
3. ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf. Retrieved 25 April 2011. 

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Name	Artin, Michael
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Date of birth	1934
Place of birth	Hamburg, Germany
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