Iacopo Barsotti
Iacopo Barsotti , also Jacopo Barsotti, (born April 28, 1921 in Turin , † October 27, 1987 in Padua ) was an Italian mathematician who dealt with algebraic and arithmetic geometry.
Barsotti received his Laureate degree in 1942 from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, did his military service and then returned to Pisa. From 1946 to 1948 he was assistant to Francesco Severi in Rome. He received his doctorate in 1945 under Oscar Zariski at Princeton University , where he researched for a long time. He was a professor at the University of Pittsburgh until 1960 and then at Brown University . In 1961 he became professor of geometry in Pisa due to a competition and from 1968 professor of geometry at the University of Padua , where he remained until his death.
He dealt with the theory of algebras and algebraic geometry and especially Abelian varieties over fields of finite characteristics.
In 1962 he introduced Barsotti-Tate groups connected with positive characteristics of Abelian varieties, so named after Alexander Grothendieck (1971) additionally after John T. Tate (1967, who introduced them as p-divisible groups). They were important in the development of the crystalline cohomology of Grothendieck. He also introduced generalized theta functions.
In 1982 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study .
His doctoral student Francesco Baldassarri was his successor in Padua.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Barsotti Analytical methods for abelian varieties in positive characteristic , Colloq. Théorie des Groupes Algébriques (Bruxelles, 1962), Librairie Universitaire, Louvain, 1962, pp. 77-85
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barsotti, Iacopo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Barsotti, Jacopo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Turin |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 1987 |
| Place of death | Padua |