Arthur Mattuck

Arthur Paul Mattuck ( born June 11, 1930 in Brooklyn ) is an American mathematician who deals with algebraic geometry.

Mattuck studied at Swarthmore College with a bachelor 's degree in 1951 and in 1954 from Princeton University with Emil Artin received his doctorate ( Abelian varieties over p- adic ground fields ). As a post - graduate student he was at Harvard University, and from 1955 to 1957 Moore Instructor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1958 he became assistant professor there in 1965 and professor. Mattuck stood from 1984 to 1989 the mathematics faculty at MIT before. 1972 and 1978 he was awarded the Class of 1922 Chair for the renewal of the teaching of mathematics at MIT. In particular, he developed the Analysis Course and also published on teaching methods. From 1972 to 1989 and from 1982 to 1984, he stood in front of the Undergraduate Committee at MIT; for merits in teaching in 1992 he became Margaret MacVicar Fellow.

In 1958, he was with John T. Tate a derivation of the inequality of Guido Castelnuovo and Francesco Severi ( Castel Nuovo 1906) for correspondences of curves over algebraically closed bodies from the theorem of Riemann -Roch. Alexander Grothendieck analyzed the evidence and simplified it further. The Castelnuovo- Severi inequality plays an important role in André Weil's proof of the Riemann conjecture over function fields.

From 1959 until the divorce in 1977, he was married to the chemist Joan Berkowitz.

Writings

• Introduction to Analysis, Prentice Hall 1999
• John T. Tate On the inequality of Castelnuovo- Severi, essays Mathematics Seminar University of Hamburg, Volume 22, 1958, pp. 295-299