Oscar Zariski’s work in mathematics permanently altered the foundations of algebraic geometry. The powerful tools he forged from the ideas of modern algebra allowed him to penetrate classical problems with an unaccustomed depth, and brought new rigor to the intuitive proofs of the Italian School. The students he trained at Hopkins, and later at Harvard, are among the foremost mathematicians of our time. While what he called his ‘real life’ is recorded in almost ahundred books and papers, this story of his ‘unreal life’ is based upon Parikh’s interviews with his family, colleagues, and students, and on his own memories from a series of tape-recorded interviews made a few years before his death in 1986. First published in 1991, The Unreal Life of Oscar Zariski was highly successful and widely praised, but has been out of print for many years. Springer is proud to make this book available again, introducing Oscar Zariski toa new generation of mathematicians. The only biography of the personal life of this important mathematician Engaging look at the development of algebraic geometry in the 20th century INDICE: Preface.- Acknowledgments.- A Foreword for Non-Mathematicians, by David Mumford.- That Darling Old Lady Kobrin and Chernigov 1899-1918.- Birds Whirling like Numbers, Kiev 1918-1920.- Three Great Mathematicians, Rome 1921-1926.- Reading Pushkin and Dante.- ‘Oscar, you are not one of us’.- Walking with Lefschets, Baltimore 1927-1928.- A Voyage of Discovery, 1928-1932.- ‘The Algebra Which Sheds Light on Geometry’, 1932-1935.- A Citizen of the World of Mathematics, 1935-1937.-The Resolution of Some Singularities.- A Land of Intellectual Cannibals, 1939-1944.- ‘A Superb Audience of One…Andre Weil’ Sao Paulo 1945.- Normal Points of a Variety, Cambridge 1947.- The Pure Pleasure of It.- AnAttack on the Theory of Linear Systems, 1950-1956.- Tying Bells on Characteristic Zero, 1957-1961.- A Feeling of Awe, 1962-1974.- The Depth of His Attachment.- Appendix A: A Discussion of Zariski’s Work.- Appendix B: Bibliography of Oscar Zariski.- Index of Names.
- ISBN: 978-0-387-09429-8
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 265
- Fecha Publicación: 01/12/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
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