Steven Kleiman

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Steven Kleiman
Born (1942-03-31) March 31, 1942
Boston, USA
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University
Doctoral advisor Oscar Zariski
Doctoral students Spencer Bloch
Daniel Grayson
George Kempf
Dan Laksov
Robert Lax
Ragni Piene
Israel Vainsencher

Steven Lawrence Kleiman (born 31 March 1942) is an American mathematician.

Professional career

He is a Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Born in Boston, he did his undergraduate studies at the MIT. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1965, after studying there with Oscar Zariski and David Mumford, and joined the MIT faculty in 1969.[1] Kleiman held the prestigious NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship (1966-1967), Sloan Fellowship (1968), and Guggenheim Fellowship (1979).

Contributions

Kleiman is known for his work in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra. He has made seminal contributions in motivic cohomology, moduli theory, intersection theory and enumerative geometry. A study of academic collaborations in enumerative geometry found that he was not only the most prolific author in that area, but also the one with the most collaborative ties, and the most central author of the field in terms of closeness centrality; the study's authors proposed to name the collaboration graph of the field in his honor.[2]

Awards and honors

In 1989 the University of Copenhagen awarded him an honorary doctorate[3] and in May 2002 the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters hosted a conference in honor of his 60th birthday and elected him as a foreign member.[4] In 1992 Kleiman was elected foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[5]

Selected publications

  • Kleiman, Steven L. (1966), "Toward a numerical theory of ampleness", Annals of Mathematics. Second Series 84 (3): 293–344, doi:10.2307/1970447, JSTOR 1970447 .
  • Kleiman, S. L. (1968), Algebraic cycles and Weil conjectures. Dix exposés sur la cohomologie des schémas, North-Holland, Amsterdam; Masson, Paris, pp. 359–386 .
  • Altman, I.; Kleiman, Steven L. (1970), Introduction to Grothendieck duality theory, Springer-Verlag .
  • Kleiman, Steven L. (1974), "The transversality of a general translate", Compositio Mathematica 28 (3): 287–297 .
  • Altman, Allen B.; Kleiman, Steven L. (1980), "Compactifying the Picard scheme", Advances in Mathematics 35 (1): 50–112, doi:10.1016/0001-8708(80)90043-2 .
  • Kleiman, Steven; Thorup, Anders L. (1994), "A geometric theory of the Buchsbaum-Rim multiplicity", Journal of Algebra 167 (1): 168–231, doi:10.1006/jabr.1994.1182 .
  • Gaffney, T.; Kleiman, Steven L. (1999), "Specialization of integral dependence for modules", Inventiones Mathematicae 137 (3): 541–574, doi:10.1007/s002220050335 .

See also

References

  1. ↑ Duren, Peter L.; Askey, Richard (1989), A Century of Mathematics in America, American Mathematical Society, p. 543, ISBN 0-8218-0124-4 .
  2. ↑ Alberich, R.; Miret, J. M.; Miro-Julia, J.; Rosselló, F.; Xambó, S. (2002), The Kleiman graph .
  3. ↑ MIT TechTalk, February 14, 1990.
  4. ↑ Reports to the president 2001–2002, MIT Mathematics Dept.; Conference in Honor of Steven Kleiman's 60th Birthday, Dan Grayson, Univ. of Illinois.
  5. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-27.

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