Steven Kleiman

Infobox_Scientist
name = Steven Lawrence Kleiman
birth_date = birth date|1942|03|31
birth_place = Boston, USA
death_date =
death_place =
field = Mathematician
work_institution = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
alma_mater = Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University
doctoral_advisor = Oscar Zariski

Steven Lawrence Kleiman (born 31 March 1942) is an American mathematician.

He is a Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Born in Boston, he did his undergraduate studies at the MIT. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1965, after studying there with Oscar Zariski and David Mumford, and joined the MIT faculty in 1969. [citation|title=A Century of Mathematics in America|first1=Peter L.|last1=Duren|first2=Richard|last2=Askey|publisher=American Mathematical Society|year=1989|isbn=0821801244|page=543.] In 1989 the University of Copenhagen awarded him an honorary doctorate [ [http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/1990/feb14/22866.html MIT TechTalk, February 14, 1990] .] and in May 2002 the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters hosted a conference in honor of his 60th birthday and elected him as a foreign member. [ [http://web.mit.edu/annualreports/pres02/11.05.html Reports to the president 2001–2002] , MIT Mathematics Dept.; [http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~dan/Kleiman60/ Conference in Honor of Steven Kleiman's 60th Birthday] , Dan Grayson, Univ. of Illinois.] Kleiman held the prestigious NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship (1966-1967), Sloan Fellowship (1968), and Guggenheim Fellowship (1979).

Kleiman is known for his work in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra. He has made seminal contributions in motivic cohomology,moduli theory, intersection theory and enumerative geometry. A study of academic collaborations in enumerative geometry found that he was not only the most prolific author in that area, but also the one with the most collaborative ties, and the most central author of the field in terms of closeness centrality; the study's authors proposed to name the collaboration graph of the field in his honor. [citation|first1=R.|last1=Alberich|first2=J. M.|last2=Miret|first3=J.|last3=Miro-Julia|first4=F.|last4=Rosselló|first5=S.|last5=Xambó|title=The Kleiman graph|url=http://bioinfo.uib.es/~cesc/recerca/publicacions/kleiman.pdf|year=2002.]

elected publications

*citation|title=Toward a numerical theory of ampleness|first=Steven L.|last=Kleiman|journal=Annals of Mathematics, 2nd Ser.|volume=84|issue=3|year=1966|pages=293–344|doi=10.2307/1970447.

*citation|title=Algebraic cycles and Weil conjectures. Dix esposés sur la cohomologie des schémas|first=S. L.|last=Kleiman|pages=359-386|publisher=North-Holland, Amsterdam; Masson, Paris|year=1968.

*citation|title=Introduction to Grothendieck duality theory|first1=I.|last1=Altman|first2=Steven L.|last2=Kleiman|year=1970|publisher=Springer-Verlag.

*citation|last=Kleiman|first=Steven L.|title=The transversality of a general translate|journal=Compositio Mathematica,|volume=28|issue=3|year=1974|pages=287–297.

*citation|title=Compactifying the Picard scheme |first1=Allen B.|last1=Altman|first2=Steven L.|last2=Kleiman|journal=Adv. in Math,|volume=35|year=1980|issue=1|pages=50–112.

*citation|title=A geometric theory of the Buchsbaum-Rim multiplicity|first1=Steven|last1=Kleiman|first2=Anders L.|last2=Thorup|journal=J. Algebra,|volume=167|year=1994|issue=1|pages=168–231.

*citation|title=Specialization of integral dependence for modules|first1=T.|last1=Gaffney|first2=Steven L.|last2=Kleiman|journal=Invent. Math.,|volume=137|issue=3|year=1999|pages=541–574.

ee also

*Cone of curves (Kleiman-Mori cone)

References

External links

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