A ring is an Artinian ring if it satisfies the descending chain condition on (one-sided) ideals
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Araz Artinian, an Armenian-Canadian film maker and photographer
If is a functor from Artinian algebras to groups which is left exact, then it representable (G is the functor of points of a formal group.
He proved Schlessinger's theorem about representable functors of Artinian algebras and introduced Lichtenbaum–Schlessinger functors in deformation theory.