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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...
...Oscar Zariski, Robinson Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, who was selected for the award in 1965, said yesterday that "Professor Brauer is a highly deserving man and I am very happy...
...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...