Melvin Hochster
| Melvin Hochster | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Born |
August 2, 1943 Brooklyn |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Michigan |
| Alma mater |
Princeton University Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | Goro Shimura |
| Doctoral students |
Piotr Blass Sankar Dutta Karen E. Smith |
| Notable awards |
Cole Prize (1980) Guggenheim Fellowship (1981) Putnam Fellow (1960) |
| Spouse | Margie Morris |
| Children | 5 |
Melvin Hochster (born August 2, 1943) is an eminent American mathematician, regarded as one of the leading commutative algebraists active today. He is currently the Jack E. McLaughlin Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan.
Hochster attended Stuyvesant High School, where he was captain of the Math Team, and received a B.A. from Harvard University. While at Harvard, he was a Putnam Fellow in 1960. He earned his Ph.D. in 1967 from Princeton University, where he wrote a dissertation under Goro Shimura characterizing the prime spectra of commutative rings. He held positions at the University of Minnesota and Purdue University before joining the faculty at Michigan in 1977. Hochster shared the 1980 Cole Prize with Michael Aschbacher, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981, and has been a member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1992. In 2008, on the occasion of his 65th birthday, he was honored with a conference in Ann Arbor and with a special volume of the Michigan Mathematical Journal.
...
Wikipedia