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MICHAEL ARTIN RECEIVES 
AMS STEELE PRIZE

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January 7, 2002

PROVIDENCE, RI---Michael Artin of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will receive the 2002 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement. Presented annually by the American Mathematical Society, the Steele Prize is one of the highest distinctions in mathematics. The prize will be awarded today at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego, California.

Professor Artin is being honored for his lifelong 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 has supervised thirty doctoral students and influenced a great many more.

Further information about AMS prizes may be found at http://www.ams.org/prizes-awards.


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