David Eisenbud
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David Eisenbud (born 8 April 1947) is an American mathematician. He is currently Director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Eisenbud received his PhD in 1970 from the University of Chicago, where he was a student of Saunders Mac Lane and, unofficially, J. C. Robson. He then taught at Brandeis University from 1970 to 1997, during which time he had visiting positions at Harvard, IHES, Bonn, and CNRS. He joined the staff at MSRI in 1997, and took a position at Berkeley at the same time. He has since accepted a second five-year term at MSRI.
From 2003 to 2005 Eisenbud was President of the American Mathematical Society.
Eisenbud's mathematical interests include commutative and non-commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, topology, and computational methods in these fields. He has written nearly 150 papers with over 50 co-authors. Notable contributions include the theory of matrix factorizations for maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules over hypersurface rings, the Eisenbud-Goto conjecture on degrees of generators of syzygy modules, and the Buchsbaum-Eisenbud criterion for exactness of a complex. He has had 23 doctoral students.
Eisenbud's hobbies are juggling (he has written two papers on the mathematics of juggling) and music.
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[edit] Selected publications
- Eisenbud, David (1995). Commutative algebra. With a view toward algebraic geometry. New York: Springer-Verlag, xvi+785. ISBN 0-387-94268-8.
