Igor Dolgachev

Igor Dolgachev
Born (1944-04-07) April 7, 1944 (age 80)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMoscow State University (1966)
Known forDolgachev surface
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan
Thesis On the purity of the degeneration locus of families of curves  (1970)
Doctoral advisorIgor Shafarevich

Igor V. Dolgachev (born 7 April 1944[1]) is a Russian–American mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry. He has been a professor at the University of Michigan since 1978. He introduced Dolgachev surfaces in 1981.[2]

Dolgachev completed his Ph.D. at Moscow State University in 1970, with thesis On the purity of the degeneration locus of families of curves written under the supervision of Igor Shafarevich.[3]

  1. ^ Dolgachev, Igor V.; Keum, JongHae; Kondō, Shigeyuki (2007-01-25). Algebraic geometry: Korea-Japan Conference in honor of Igor Dolgachev's 60th birthday, July 5-9, 2004, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea. American Mathematical Soc. pp. 7–. ISBN 978-0-8218-4201-0. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
  2. ^ Donaldson, Simon K.; Society, London Mathematical (1990). Geometry of low-dimensional manifolds: proceedings of the Durham Symposium, July 1989. Cambridge University Press. pp. 56–. ISBN 978-0-521-39978-4. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
  3. ^ Igor Dolgachev at the Mathematics Genealogy Project