David Arends Gieseker (born 23 November 1943 in

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) is an American mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry. Gieseker received his bachelor's degree in 1965 from

Reed College Reed College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus in the Eastmoreland, Portland, Oregon, E ...

and his master's degree from

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in 1967. In 1970 he received his Ph.D. under

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with thesis ''Contributions to the Theory of Positive Embeddings in Algebraic Geometry''. Gieseker became a professor at the

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in 1975 and became professor emeritus in 2022. The topics of his research include

geometric invariant theory In mathematics, geometric invariant theory (or GIT) is a method for constructing quotients by group actions in algebraic geometry, used to construct moduli spaces. It was developed by David Mumford in 1965, using ideas from the paper in class ...

and moduli of

vector bundle In mathematics, a vector bundle is a topological construction that makes precise the idea of a family of vector spaces parameterized by another space X (for example X could be a topological space, a manifold, or an algebraic variety): to eve ...

s over

algebraic curve In mathematics, an affine algebraic plane curve is the zero set of a polynomial in two variables. A projective algebraic plane curve is the zero set in a projective plane of a homogeneous polynomial in three variables. An affine algebraic plane cu ...

Selected publications

Articles

*with

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: * * * * *with Jun Li: *with Jun Li:

Books

Lectures on moduli of curves

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, Springer Verlag 1982; notes by D. R. Gokhale *with

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and Horst Knörrer
''Geometry of algebraic Fermi curves''
Academic Press 1992

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July 18–23, 2011, Hang-Zhou and Li Jiang, China {{DEFAULTSORT:Gieseker, David 1943 births Living people 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Reed College alumni Harvard University alumni University of California, Los Angeles faculty