Zinovy Reichstein

Zinovy Reichstein

Born	1961
Residence	Canada
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of British Columbia
Alma mater	Harvard University
Doctoral advisor	Michael Artin
Known for	Essential dimension

Zinovy Reichstein (born 1961) is a Russian-born American mathematician. He is a professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He studies mainly algebra, algebraic geometry and algebraic groups. He introduced (with J. Buhler) the concept of essential dimension.

Reichstein received his PhD degree in 1988 from Harvard University under the supervision of Michael Artin. Parts of his thesis entitled "The Behavior of Stability under Equivariant Maps" were published in the journal Inventiones Mathematicae.

As of 2011, he is on the editorial board of the mathematics journal Transformation groups.