nLab Barry Mazur

Barry Charles Mazur is a mathematician at Harvard University.

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Selected writings

Early occurence of the argument that later came to be known as the Eilenberg swindle:

• Barry C. Mazur, On embeddings of spheres, Acta Mathematica 105 1–2 (1961) 1–17 [doi:10.1007/BF02559532]

Proving the main conjecture of Iwasawa theory:

• Barry Mazur and Andrew Wiles, Class fields of abelian extensions of $\mathbb{Q}$, Invent. Math. 76 (1984) 179–330 [eudml:143124, MR0742853]

Introducing Artin-Mazur formal groups:

• Michael Artin, Barry Mazur, Formal Groups Arising from Algebraic Varieties, Annales scientifiques de l’École Normale Supérieure, Sér. 4, 10 no. 1 (1977), p. 87-131 (numdam:ASENS_1977_4_10_1_87_0, MR56:15663)

On elliptic curves over general commutative rings (in arithmetic geometry):

• Nicholas Katz, Barry Mazur, Arithmetic moduli of elliptic curves, Annals of Mathematics Studies, vol. 108, Princeton University Press, 1985 (jstor:j.ctt1b9s05p)

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