nLab Oscar Zariski

Oscar Zariski (born Oscher Zaritsky, 24 April 1899 – 4 July 1986) was a Russian-born American mathematician.

Selected writings

  • Oscar Zariski, Shreeram S. Abhyankar, Joseph Lipman, David Mumford (eds.), Algebraic surfaces, Classics in mathematics (second supplemented ed.) (2004) [1935], Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-540-58658-6, MR 0469915
  • Oscar Zariski, Introduction to the problem of minimal models in the theory of algebraic surfaces (1958), Publications of the Mathematical Society of Japan, vol. 4, The Mathematical Society of Japan, Tokyo, MR 0097403
  • Oscar Zariski, James Cohn (ed.), An Introduction to the Theory of Algebraic Surfaces (1969) [1958], Lecture notes in mathematics_, vol. 83, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, doi:10.1007/BFb0082246, ISBN 978-3-540-04602-8, MR 0263819
  • Oscar Zariski, Pierre Samuel, Commutative algebra I (1975) [1958], Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol. 28_, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-0-387-90089-6, MR 0090581
  • Oscar Zariski, Pierre Samuel, Commutative algebra II (1975) [1960], Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-0-387-90171-8, MR 0389876
  • Oscar Zariski, François Kmety, Michel Merle, Ben Lichtin (eds.), The moduli problem for plane branches (2006) [1973], University Lecture Series, vol. 39, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, ISBN 978-0-8218-2983-7, MR 0414561

Collected papers:

  • Oscar Zariski, Collected papers I: Foundations of algebraic geometry and resolution of singularities (1972), Cambridge, Massachusetts-London: MIT Press, ISBN 978-0-262-08049-1, MR 0505100
  • Oscar Zariski, Collected papers II: Holomorphic functions and linear systems (1973), Mathematicians of Our Time, Cambridge, Massachusetts-London: MIT Press, ISBN 978-0-262-01038-2, MR 0505100
  • Oscar Zariski, Michael Artin, Barry Mazur, (eds.), Collected papers III: Topology of curves and surfaces, and special topics in the theory of algebraic varieties (1978), Mathematicians of Our Time, Cambridge, Massachusetts-London: MIT Press, ISBN 978-0-262-24021-5, MR 0505104
  • Oscar Zariski, Joseph Lipman, Bernard Teissier (eds.), Collected papers IV: Equisingularity on algebraic varieties (1979), Mathematicians of Our Time, vol. 16, MIT Press, ISBN 978-0-262-08049-1, MR 0545653
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