Frans Oort

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Frans Oort, Oberwolfach 2004

Frans Oort (born July 17, 1935 in Bussum ) is a Dutch mathematician who deals with algebraic geometry .

Life

Oort studied at the University of Leiden from 1952 to 1958 (diploma on elliptical curves ). He received his doctorate in 1961 in Leiden with Willem Titus van Est (1921–2002) and Jacob Murre (Reducible and Multiple Algebraic Curves), but had also previously worked with Jean-Pierre Serre in Paris and Aldo Andreotti in Pisa . From 1961 he was at the University of Amsterdam , where he became a professor in 1967. From 1977 until his retirement in 2000 he was a professor at the University of Utrecht . He was a visiting scholar at Harvard University (1966/67) and Aarhus University (1972/73), among others . In 2008 he was Eilenberg Professor at Columbia University .

For example, he dealt with Abelian varieties and their modules . Here is an unsolved conjecture named after him and Yves André ( André-Oort conjecture ). Oort also wrote works on Poncelet's Closing Theorem and the mathematical aspect of Johann Sebastian Bach's music .

He is married to the author Marijke Harberts (among other things she wrote a book about the women's rights activist Joke Smits), with whom he has three children, including the ultimate frisbee player Jeroen Oort.

In 1962 he gave a lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm ( Multiple algebraic curves ). He has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 2011 .

His doctoral students include Hendrik Lenstra , Aise Johan de Jong , Michiel Hazewinkel , Joseph Steenbrink , Ben Moonen, Jaap Top and Carel Faber.

Fonts

  • Editor with Carel Faber, Gerard van der Geer : Moduli of abelian varieties , Birkhäuser 2001
  • Editor with Steenbrink, van der Geer: Arithmetic algebraic geometry , Birkhäuser 1991
  • Published by: Algebraic Geometry , Oslo 1970, Wolters-Noordhoff 1972
  • with Ben Moonen: The Torelli locus and special subvarieties , in G. Farkas, I. Morrison (Ed.), Handbook of moduli, Volume 2, International Press 2013, pp. 549-594, Arxiv

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personal data
SURNAME Oort, Frans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Bussum