2. Michael Artin
• Born June 28, 1934
• Hamburg, Germany and lived in Indiana
• Natalia Nauovna Jasny and Emil Artin were his parents.
3. Artin’s Education
• Undergraduate Studies (Princeton University)
He received an A.B. in 1955.
• Harvard University
He received a PH.D in 1960
Dr. Oscar Aariski was his doctoral advisor in 1960.
4. Accomplishments
• Artin was a Lecturer at Havard as Benjamin Peirce
Lecturer in 1960-63
• Joined the MIT mathematics faculty in 1963
• He became a professor in 1966
• He was appointed Norbeer Wiener Professor from 1988-
93
• He served as Chair of the Undergraduate Committee from
1994-97 and 1997-98.
5. • Also served as President of the American Mathematical
Society form 1990-92
• He received Honorary Doctoral degrees from the
University of Antwerp and University of Hamburg.
• He was selected for Undergraduate Teaching Prize and
the Educational and Graduate Advising Award.
6. • Professor Artin is an algebraic geometer.
• He is concentrating on non-commutative algebra.
• He the early 1960’s he spent time in France, contributing
to the SGA4 volumes.
• He worked on problems that lead to approximation
theorem, in local algebra.
7. Honors
• 2005 Honored with the Harvard Graduate School of Arts
& Sciences Centennial Medal.
• Member of the National Academy of Sciences Fellow
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advance
applied Mathematics.
• 2013 he received the Wolf Prize in Mathematics for (his
fundamental contributions to algebraic geometry and non
commutative geometry.
8. Non –Commutative
Algebraic Geometry
• Branch of mathematics and study of the geometric
properties of formal duals of non-commutative algebraic
objects, such as rings as well as geometric objects derived
from them.
• The non-commutative ring generalizes are regular
functions on a commutative scheme. Function on usual
spaces in the traditional algebraic geometry multiply by
points.
9. Conclusion
• I find Professor Michael Artin research on non
commutative algebraic geometry quite interesting and
definitely believe that his approach/ research will be a
very significant resources for a History of Math Courses
years to come. His techniques helps to us to study
objects in commutative algebraic geometry and this is a
great value to the field of mathematics.
