Daniel Lazard (born December 10, 1941) is a
French mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems.
Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
On ...
and
computer scientist. He is emeritus professor at the
University of Paris VI
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.
Career
Daniel Lazard was born in
Carpentras
Carpentras (, formerly ; Provençal Occitan: ''Carpentràs'' in classical norm or ''Carpentras'' in Mistralian norm; la, Carpentoracte) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. ...
, in southern
France
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. After his undergraduate education at the
University of Paris VI
Pierre and Marie Curie University (french: link=no, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, UPMC), also known as Paris 6, was a public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussieu Campus in the L ...
, he obtained a Ph.D. in 1968 under the supervision of the
commutative algebra
Commutative algebra, first known as ideal theory, is the branch of algebra that studies commutative rings, their ideals, and modules over such rings. Both algebraic geometry and algebraic number theory build on commutative algebra. Prom ...
ist
Pierre Samuel
Pierre Samuel (12 September 1921 – 23 August 2009) was a French mathematician, known for his work in commutative algebra and its applications to algebraic geometry. The two-volume work ''Commutative Algebra'' that he wrote with Oscar Zariski ...
, with the dissertation ''"Autour de la platitude"'' ("Around flatness").
After 1970, his main area of research changed to
computer algebra, particularly
multivariate polynomial
In mathematics, a polynomial is an expression consisting of indeterminates (also called variables) and coefficients, that involves only the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and positive-integer powers of variables. An exampl ...
s,
computational algebraic geometry
Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics, classically studying zeros of multivariate polynomials. Modern algebraic geometry is based on the use of abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, for solving geometrical ...
and
systems of polynomial equations. To mark his retirement at the end of 2004, there was a conference at the University of Paris VI devoted to his subject area.
"International Conference on Polynomial System Solving, Paris, November 24-25-26 2004, in honour of Daniel Lazard"
LIP6, archived fro
on March 14, 2009.
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1941 births
20th-century French mathematicians
21st-century French mathematicians
French computer scientists
Living people
Pierre and Marie Curie University faculty
Algebraic geometers
People from Carpentras