Word: zariski
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...photographer Ansel Adams and Oscar Zariski, Robinson Professor of Mathematics Emeritus, both confirmed yesterday that they will receive honorary degrees Thursday. In addition, representatives of the opera singer Leontyne Price indicated yesterday that she is also a recipient...
Photographer Ansel Adams, opera singer Leontyne Price and Oscar Zariski, Robinson Professor of Mathematics Emeritus, will receive honorary degrees at Thursday's Commencement exercises. In addition, several sources indicated yesterday that former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance may be on this year's list of ten honorary degree recipients...
...Zariski said yesterday. "I'm certainly very honored and very happy--no question about that." He added that the honorary degree's citation "apparently noted my success in having very good students, who took up their work with me and became very well known later...
Among his students, Zariski said, were David B. Mumford '57, who currently holds Zariski's former chair in mathematics, and Heisuke Hironake. Byerly Professor of Mathematics, Zariski added that Mumford formally recommended him for an honorary degree...
...Zariski, a specialist in algebraic geometry, was born in Russia, received his doctorate at the University of Rome, and came to the United States in 1927, "I feel a little bit uneasy talking about my achievements," he said, "but I never took mediocre students. On the whole, I had about 15 students who are now full professors of mathematics...