Robert Kendall Lazarsfeld (born April 15, 1953) is an American

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

, currently a professor at Stony Brook University. He was previously the Raymond L. Wilder Collegiate Professor of Mathematics at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

. He is the son of two sociologists,

Paul Lazarsfeld Paul Felix Lazarsfeld (February 13, 1901August 30, 1976) was an Austrian-American sociologist. The founder of Columbia University's Bureau of Applied Social Research, he exerted influence over the techniques and the organization of social rese ...

and Patricia Kendall. His research focuses on algebraic geometry. During 2002–2009, Lazarsfeld was an editor at the '' Journal of the American Mathematical Society'' (Managing Editor, 2007–2009). In 2012–2013, he served as the Managing Editor of the ''

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''. Lazarsfeld went to Harvard for undergraduate studies and earned his

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from Brown University in 1980 under supervision of William Fulton. In 2006 Lazarsfeld was elected a Fellow of the

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. In 2012 he became a fellow of the

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. In 2015 he was awarded the AMS

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for Mathematical Exposition.

Selected works

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References

External links

Website at Stony Brook University
* 1953 births Living people Algebraic geometers 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Brown University alumni University of California, Los Angeles faculty University of Michigan faculty Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Harvard University alumni Scientists from New York City Mathematicians from New York (state) Lazarsfeld family {{US-mathematician-stub