William Haboush

William Joseph Haboush (born 1942)[1] is an American mathematician, a professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.[2] An algebraic geometer, Haboush is the namesake of Haboush's theorem, which he proved in 1975, resolving a conjecture of David Mumford.[3]

Haboush completed a Ph.D. in 1969 at Columbia University. His dissertation, A Theory of Codimension One Phenomena with an Application to the Theory of Purely Inseparable Descent, was jointly supervised by Heisuke Hironaka and Raymond Hoobler.[4]

  1. ^ Birth year from German National Library catalog, retrieved 2024-03-21
  2. ^ William Haboush, Directory, University of Illinois Department of Mathematics, retrieved 2024-03-21
  3. ^ Haboush, W. J. (1975), "Reductive groups are geometrically reductive", Annals of Mathematics, Second Series, 102 (1): 67–83, doi:10.2307/1970974, MR 0382294, Zbl 0316.14016. See reviews by Vladimir Popov, MR382294, "In this paper the author proves Mumford's famous conjecture on geometrically reductive groups", and by A. G. Elašvili, Zbl 0316.14016, "In this paper the Mumford conjecture is proved".
  4. ^ William Haboush at the Mathematics Genealogy Project