Gerard Washnitzer

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Gerard Washnitzer (born 1926 in New York City , † April 2, 2017 ) was an American mathematician .

Washnitzer studied at Princeton University with Emil Artin, among others, and received his doctorate in 1950 from Salomon Bochner ( A Dirichlet Principle for analytic functions of several complex variables ). In 1952 he was a Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He was then an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University and later professor of mathematics at Princeton. 1960/61 and 1967/68 was at the Institute for Advanced Study .

With Paul Monsky , he introduced Monsky-Washnitzer cohomology in 1968, a p-adic cohomology theory for non-singular algebraic varieties .

His doctoral counted William Fulton .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Department Mourns Professor Emeritus Gerard Washnitzer * 50 ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 15, 2017  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.math.princeton.edu
  2. ↑ Gerard Washnitzer in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / name used
  3. ↑ List of instructors at MIT
  4. ^ Monsky, Washnitzer Formal Cohomology I , Annals of Mathematics, Volume 88, 1968, p. 181
personal data
SURNAME Washnitzer, Gerard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH 2nd April 2017