News Release
MICHAEL ARTIN RECEIVES
AMS STEELE PRIZE
For more information, contact:
Mike Breen or Annette Emerson, AMS Public Awareness Officers
Email: paoffice@ams.org
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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.
Founded in 1888 to further mathematical research and
scholarship, the 30,000-member American Mathematical Society
fulfills its mission through programs and services that promote
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its connections to other disciplines and to everyday life.
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