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unusual facts about Oscar Zariski


Rohit Jivanlal Parikh

Carol is best known for her prize winning stories and for her influential biography of Oscar Zariski, The Unreal Life of Oscar Zariski.


American Journal of Mathematics

Other notable mathematicians who have served as editors or editorial associates of the journal include Oscar Zariski, Lars Ahlfors, Hermann Weyl, Wei-Liang Chow, S. S. Chern, André Weil, Harish-Chandra, Jean Dieudonné, Henri Cartan, Stephen Smale, Jun-Ichi Igusa, and Joseph A. Shalika.

Generic point

Oscar Zariski, a colleague of Weil's at São Paulo just after World War II, always insisted that generic points should be unique.


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