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Lucien Szpiro

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Nationality
  
French

Known for
  
Szpiro's conjecture

Fields
  
Mathematics

Name
  
Lucien Szpiro

Notable students
  
Shou-Wu Zhang

Role
  
Mathematician


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Institutions
  
City University of New York

Alma mater
  
Paris-Sud 11 University

Doctoral students
  
Ahmed Abbes Laurent Moret-Bailly Emmanuel Ullmo Shou-Wu Zhang

Books
  
Lectures on Equations Defining Space Curves

Doctoral advisor
  
Pierre Samuel, Maurice Auslander

Education
  
University of Paris-Sud

Lucien Szpiro is a French mathematician, known for his work in number theory, arithmetic algebraic geometry, and commutative algebra.

He attended Paris-Sud 11 University where he earned his Ph.D. under Pierre Samuel and Maurice Auslander. He then taught at Paris-Sud 11, Columbia University, and the City University of New York.

He is known for Szpiro's conjecture, which is related to the abc conjecture.

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

References

Lucien Szpiro Wikipedia