Fred Van Oystaeyen (born 1947), also ''Freddy van Oystaeyen'', is a

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and

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of mathematics at the

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. He has pioneered work on

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, in particular

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Biography

In 1972, Fred Van Oystaeyen obtained his Ph.D. from the

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. In 1975 he became professor at the University of Antwerp, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. Van Oystaeyen has well over 200 scientific papers and several books. One of his recent books, ''Virtual Topology and

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Geometry'', provides an introduction to

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. At the occasion of his 60th birthday, a conference in his honour was held in

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, September 18 to 22, 2007; on March 25, 2011, he received his first honorary doctorate from that same university, Universidad de Almería. At the campus of Universidad de Almería the street "Calle Fred Van Oystaeyen" (previously "Calle los Gallardos") is named after him. In 2019, he will receive another honorary doctorate from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. {{cite web, url=https://www.vub.ac.be/dhc2019#eredoctoren-/-honorary-doctors}

Books

* Hidetoshi Marubayashi, Fred Van Oystaeyen: ''Prime Divisors and Noncommutative Valuation Theory'', Springer, 2012, {{isbn, 978-3-6423-1151-2 * Fred Van Oystaeyen: ''Virtual topology and functor geometry'', Chapman & Hall, 2008, {{isbn, 978-1-4200-6056-0 * Constantin Nastasescu, Freddy van Oystaeyen: ''Methods of

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s'', Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1836, Springer, February 2004, {{isbn, 978-3-540-20746-7 * Freddy van Oystaeyen: ''

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for

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s'', M. Dekker, New York, 2000, {{isbn, 0-8247-0424-X * F. van Oystaeyen, A. Verschoren: ''Relative invariants of

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s: the noncommutative theory'', M. Dekker, New York, 1984, {{isbn, 0-8247-7281-4 * F. van Oystaeyen, A. Verschoren: ''Relative invariants of rings: the commutative theory'', M. Dekker, New York, 1983, {{isbn, 0-8247-7043-9 * Freddy M.J. van Oystaeyen, Alain H.M.J. Verschoren: ''Non-commutative algebraic geometry: an introduction'', Springer-Verlag, 1981, {{isbn, 0-387-11153-0 * F. van Oystaeyen, A. Verschoren: ''Reflectors and localization : application to

sheaf theory In mathematics, a sheaf is a tool for systematically tracking data (such as sets, abelian groups, rings) attached to the open sets of a topological space and defined locally with regard to them. For example, for each open set, the data could ...

'', M. Dekker, New York, 1979, {{isbn, 0-8247-6844-2 * F. van Oystaeyen: '' Prime spectra in non-commutative algebra'', Springer-Verlag, 1975, {{isbn, 0-8247-0424-X

References

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Fred Van Oystaeyen
Universiteit Antwerpen
Academic bibliography

Research
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On the Reality of Noncommutative Space
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