Steven Zucker

Steven Zucker
Born(1949-09-12)12 September 1949[1]
New York City, New York
Died13 September 2019(2019-09-13) (aged 70)[2]
Baltimore, Maryland
NationalityAmerican
Alma materPrinceton University
Known forZucker conjecture
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins University
Doctoral advisorSpencer Bloch

Steven Mark Zucker (12 September 1949 – 13 September 2019) was an American mathematician who introduced the Zucker conjecture, proved in different ways by Eduard Looijenga (1988) and by Leslie Saper and Mark Stern (1990).

Zucker completed his Ph.D. in 1974 at Princeton University under the supervision of Spencer Bloch. His work with David A. Cox led to the creation of the Cox–Zucker machine, an algorithm for determining if a given set of sections provides a basis (up to torsion) for the Mordell–Weil group of an elliptic surface , where is isomorphic to the projective line.

He was part of the mathematics faculty at the Johns Hopkins University. In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[3]

  1. ^ "Remembering Steve Zucker" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society (August 2021, Volume 68 Number 7).
  2. ^ Wallach, Rachel (19 September 2019). "Influential Johns Hopkins math professor Steven Zucker dies at 70". Johns Hopkins University.
  3. ^ "List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". Retrieved 2013-09-01.