Lucien Szpiro

French mathematician

Lucien Szpiro (23 December 1941 – 18 April 2020)[1] was a French mathematician. He was known for his work in number theory, arithmetic algebraic geometry, and commutative algebra. He was a Distinguished Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center. He helped create Szpiro's conjecture.

Lucien Szpiro
Born(1941-12-23)23 December 1941
Paris, France
Died18 April 2020(2020-04-18) (aged 78)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Alma materParis-Sud 11 University
Known forSzpiro's conjecture
AwardsPrix Doistau-Blutel (1987)
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2012)
Member of the Academia Europaea
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsCity University of New York
CNRS
Doctoral advisorPierre Samuel
Maurice Auslander
Doctoral studentsEmmanuel Ullmo
Shou-Wu Zhang

In 2014, he was made a member of the Academia Europaea.

Szpiro died on 18 April 2020 from heart failure in Paris, aged 78.[1]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 "Lucien Szpiro 1941-2020 | Not Even Wrong".

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