Boris Shapiro

For the bridge player, see Boris Schapiro.

Boris Shapiro (born 1957, Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Russian-Swedish mathematician, whose research concerns differential equations, commutative algebra and Schubert calculus. The Shapiro–Shapiro conjecture (or simply the Shapiro conjecture) was named after Michael Shapiro and him[1] (it is now the well-known Mukhin–Tarasov–Varchenko theorem[2]).

Shapiro enrolled in the Ph.D. program at Moscow State University, Soviet Union in 1985 as a student of Vladimir Arnold, but his thesis defense was rejected by the examining committee. He then defended the same thesis at Stockholm University, Sweden in 1990, and was awarded his Ph.D. He became the most prolific Ph.D. student of Arnold, in terms of academic descendance.[3] He has been a professor at Stockholm University in 1993.[4][5]

  1. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-05-26. Retrieved 2015-04-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ Purbhoo, Kevin (2009). "Reality and transversality for Schubert calculus in OG(n,2n+1)". arXiv:0911.2039 [math.AG].
  3. ^ Boris Shapiro at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-05-26. Retrieved 2015-04-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ According to Google Scholar, as of 21 August 2019, Shapiro's works have been cited 1638 times, and his h-index is 20: https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=V2gZ4SsAAAAJ