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51. Michael Artin
(1934 - )
President 1991-1992
Ph.D. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1960
Artin was awarded the AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement
in 2002
for his contributions to commutative and non-commutative algebra and ring theory as well as to modern algebraic geometry, including his Approximation
Theorem, his work with Swinnerton-Dyer resolving the Shafarevich-Tate conjecture, and his creation of the concept of
"algebraic space" generalizing "schemes." Artin is professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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