David Eisenbud

David Eisenbud ( born April 8, 1947 in New York City ) is an American mathematician, the algebra (especially commutative algebra) and algebraic geometry (including computer - algebraic methods ) deals.

Eisenbud, the son of the physicist Leonard Eisenbud, studied at the University of Chicago, where in 1967 he took his master's degree and was awarded his doctorate by Saunders MacLane and James Robson, 1970 ( torsion modules over Dedekind prime ring ). At the same time he heard there also lectures by Irving Kaplansky. 1970 to 1997 he was a professor at Brandeis University ( only Lecturer, from 1972 assistant professor, associate professor in 1976, professor in 1980 ). 1982-84 and 1992-1994, he was chairman of the mathematics department. In addition, he was a visiting scholar at Harvard University ( in 1973/74 and as a visiting professor 1987/88 and 1994), the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques ( IHES, 1974/75 ), the University of Bonn and at the Institute Henri Poincaré in Paris. From 1997 he was at the University of California, Berkeley and at MSRI, where he was director from 1997 to 2007. After that, he was only at the University of Berkeley and from 2010 Vice- President of Mathematics and Physics of the Simons Foundation.

1973-1975 he was a Sloan Fellow. 2003 to 2004 he was president of the American Mathematical Society ( AMS).

Eisenbud is a hobby juggler, and wrote two essays on the mathematics of juggling. He is married and has two children.

In 2010 he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize. He was 1974 Invited Speaker at the ICM in Vancouver ( A survey of some results on free resolution). Since 2006 he is member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Writings

  • Joe Harris: Schemes - the language of modern algebraic geometry. Wadsworth, Belmont, California 1992
  • With J. Harris: The Geometry of Schemes. Springer - Verlag 1999
  • Commutative algebra with a view toward algebraic geometry. Springer - Verlag, 1995, ISBN 0-387-94268-8.
  • The geometry of syzygies. A second course in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. Springer -Verlag 2005, ISBN 0-387-22215-4.
  • Michael Stillman, Daniel Grayson: Computations in algebraic geometry with Macaulay 2 Springer-Verlag 2001
  • Eisenbud, Harris: Progress in the theory of complex algebraic curves. Bulletin AMS Bd.21, 1989, No.2
  • Eisenbud, Harris: Cayley - Bacharach theorems and conjectures. Bulletin AMS, Bd.33, 1996, No.3
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