Word: zariski
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oscar Zariski, Dwight Parker Robinson Professor of Mathematics, and George Gaylord Simpson, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology, were awarded National Medals of Science by President Johnson Saturday...
...Zariski, who came to Harvard in 1947 after a year and a half at the University of Illinois and 18 years at Johns Hopkins University, has spent his career applying the principles of modern algebra to the study of algebraic geometry...
Algebraic geometry enables mathematicians to describe the properties of sets of points in any number of dimensions with algebraic equations. Zariski commented that mathematicians disagree over whether algebraic geometry is the study of geometry using algebraic methods or algebra in geometric form...
...Zariski said yesterday that Italian mathematics before 1900 used intuitive methods to prove theorems in algebraic geometry. However, when Zariski began to investigate the theorems, he found the "edifice of algebraic geometry shaky in its foundations." The theorems embodied many "good guesses," but left too much room for conjecture, he added...