Boris Shapiro (born 1957,

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 millio ...

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mathematician, whose research concerns

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and

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. The Shapiro–Shapiro conjecture (or simply the Shapiro conjecture) was named after Michael Shapiro and him (it is now the well-known Mukhin–Tarasov– Varchenko theorem). Shapiro enrolled in the

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program at

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

in 1985 as a student of

Vladimir Arnold Vladimir Igorevich Arnold (alternative spelling Arnol'd, russian: link=no, Влади́мир И́горевич Арно́льд, 12 June 1937 – 3 June 2010) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician. While he is best known for the Kolmogorov– ...

, but his thesis defense was rejected by the examining committee. He then defended the same thesis at Stockholm University, Sweden in 1990, and was awarded his Ph.D. Ironically, he became the most prolific Ph.D. student of Arnold, in terms of academic descendance. He has been a professor at Stockholm University since 1993.According to

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, as of 21 August 2019, Shapiro's works have been cited 1638 times, and his

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is 20: https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=V2gZ4SsAAAAJ

Selected papers

*A. Postnikov, B. Shapiro,
Trees, parking functions, syzygies, and deformations of monomial ideals
, ''

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'' 356 (8), pp. 3109–3142. *B. Shapiro, M. Shapiro, A. Vainshtein, "Ramified Coverings of S² With One Degenerate Branching Point And Enumeration of Edge-Ordered Graphs", ''Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics'', 1996, pp. 421–426.

References

External links

Boris Shapiro's home page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shapiro, Boris 1957 births Living people Mathematicians from Moscow Moscow State University alumni Russian emigrants to Sweden 20th-century Swedish mathematicians 21st-century Swedish mathematicians Stockholm University alumni Stockholm University faculty Topologists