Frans Oort
Frans Oort | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Dutch |
Alma mater | University of Leiden |
Known for | André–Oort conjecture |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Doctoral advisors | Willem Titus van Est Jaap Murre |
Doctoral students | Bas Edixhoven Michiel Hazewinkel Aise Johan de Jong Hendrik Lenstra Joseph Steenbrink |
Frans Oort (born 17 July 1935) is a Dutch mathematician who specializes in algebraic geometry.
Career
Oort studied from 1952 to 1958 at Leiden University, where he graduated with a thesis on elliptic curves. He received his doctorate in 1961 in Leiden from Willem Titus van Est and Jaap Murre with thesis Reducible and Multiple Algebraic Curves,[1] but had previously studied under Jean-Pierre Serre in Paris and Aldo Andreotti in Pisa. Oort was from 1961 at the University of Amsterdam, where he became a professor in 1967. In 1977, until his retirement in 2000, he was a professor at Utrecht University.[2]
He was a visiting scholar at several academic institutions, including Harvard University (1966/67) and Aarhus University (1972/73). In 2008 he was the Eilenberg Professor at Columbia University.[citation needed]
His doctoral students include Bas Edixhoven, Michiel Hazewinkel, Aise Johan de Jong, Hendrik Lenstra and Joseph Steenbrink.[1]
Research
Oort's research deals with, among other topics, abelian varieties and their modules. In 1994, he formulated what is now known as the André–Oort conjecture (generalizing a conjecture made in 1989 by Yves André).[3] In 2000 Oort proved a conjecture made by Grothendieck in 1970.[4]
Awards and honors
In 1962, Oort made a short contribution Multiple algebraic curves at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm, but was not an invited speaker. In 2011 he was elected a member of Academia Europaea.[2] In July 2013, he gave a talk at the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians in Taipei.[5]
Personal life
Oort married and later divorced author Marijke Harberts (1936–2020).[citation needed]
Selected publications
- Commutative group schemes, Springer 1966; Oort, F (2006). pbk reprint. ISBN 9783540371717.
- as editor: Algebraic Geometry, Oslo 1970, Wolters-Noordhoff 1972
- with Ke-Zheng Li: Moduli of supersingular abelian varieties, Springer 1998
- as editor with Steenbrink and van der Geer: Arithmetic algebraic geometry , Birkhäuser 1991; g, van der Geer; Oort, F; Steenbrink, J.H.M (2012-12-06). pbk reprint 2012. ISBN 9781461204572.
- as editor with Carel Faber and Gerard van der Geer: Moduli of abelian varieties, Birkhäuser 2001
- L. Schneps, ed. (2014). "Did earlier thoughts inspire Grothendieck? by Frans Oort". In: Alexander Grothendieck: A mathematical portrait. Sommerville, Massachusetts: International Press. pp. 231–268. S2CID 17286534.
- with Ching-Li Chai: Chai, Ching-Li; Oort, Frans (2017). "Life and work of Alexander Grothendieck". ICCM Notices. 5: 22–50. doi:10.4310/iccm.2017.v5.n1.a2. S2CID 34440499.
References
- ^ a b Frans Oort at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b "Frans Oort". Academia Europaea.
- ^ Zannier, Umberto (2012). Some problems of unlikely intersections in arithmetic and geometry. Princeton University Press. p. 9. ISBN 9780691153711.
- ^ Oort, Frans (2000). "Newton polygons and formal groups: Conjectures by Manin and Grothendieck". Ann. of Math. Series 2. 152 (1): 183–206. arXiv:math/0007201. Bibcode:2000math......7201O. doi:10.2307/2661381. JSTOR 2661381. S2CID 18575416.
- ^ Oort, Frans (November 2013). "Prime numbers" (PDF). Notices of the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians. 1 (2): 60–78. doi:10.4310/iccm.2013.v1.n2.a8.
External links
- Homepage in Utrecht
- "Frans Oort on "John Tate receives the 2010 Abel Prize"". YouTube. 23 January 2016.
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