Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics which uses abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, for solving geometrical problems. Classically it studies zeros of multivariate polynomials, the modern approach generalizes this in a few different aspects.
Grandmaster (GM) is a title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain. Once achieved, the title is held for life, though exceptionally the title can be revoked for cheating.
Singular is a computer algebra system for polynomial computations with special emphasis on the needs of commutative and non-commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, and singularity theory. Singular has been released under the terms of GNU General Public License. Problems in non-commutative algebra can be tackled with the Singular offspring Plural. Singular is developed under the direction of Wolfram Decker, Gert-Martin Greuel, Gerhard Pfister, and Hans Schönemann, who head Singular's core development team within the Department of Mathematics of the Technische Universität Kaiserslautern. In the DFG Priority Program 1489, interfaces to GAP, Polymake and Gfan are being developed in order to cover recently established areas of mathematics involving convex and algebraic geometry, such as toric and tropical geometry.
Jonathan Penrose, was an English chess player, who held the titles Grandmaster (1993) and International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1983). He won the British Chess Championship ten times between 1958 and 1969.
Macaulay2 is a free computer algebra system created by Daniel Grayson and Michael Stillman for computation in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry.
David Eisenbud is an American mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley and former director of the then Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), now known as Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath). He served as Director of MSRI from 1997 to 2007, and then again from 2013 to 2022.
Jiří (Jirka) Matoušek was a Czech mathematician working in computational geometry and algebraic topology. He was a professor at Charles University in Prague and the author of several textbooks and research monographs.
In mathematics and computer science, symbolic-numeric computation is the use of software that combines symbolic and numeric methods to solve problems.
FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and norms. Once awarded, titles are held for life except in cases of fraud or cheating. Open titles may be earned by all players, while women's titles are restricted to female players. Many strong female players hold both open and women's titles. FIDE also awards titles for arbiters, organizers and trainers. Titles for correspondence chess, chess problem composition and chess problem solving are no longer administered by FIDE.
Luc Illusie is a French mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry. His most important work concerns the theory of the cotangent complex and deformations, crystalline cohomology and the De Rham–Witt complex, and logarithmic geometry. In 2012, he was awarded the Émile Picard Medal of the French Academy of Sciences.
Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar was an Indian American mathematician known for his contributions to algebraic geometry. He, at the time of his death, held the Marshall Distinguished Professor of Mathematics Chair at Purdue University, and was also a professor of computer science and industrial engineering. He is known for Abhyankar's conjecture of finite group theory.
Peter Slodowy was a German mathematician who worked on singularity theory and algebraic geometry.
Falko Bindrich is a German chess grandmaster. He is the No. 7 ranked German player as of October 2017.
Ferdinando 'Teo' Mora is an Italian mathematician, and since 1990 until 2019 a professor of algebra at the University of Genoa.
Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov is a Russian-German mathematician.
Anton Vladimirovich Smirnov is an Australian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE in 2017.
Anna Maria Bigatti is an Italian mathematician specializing in computational methods for commutative algebra. She is a ricercatore in the department of mathematics at the University of Genoa. She is one of the developers of CoCoA, a computer algebra system, and of its core library CoCoALib.
Alexander Schmidt is a German mathematician at the University of Heidelberg. His research interests include algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry.
Wolfgang Vogel was a German mathematician who made contributions to commutative algebra and algebraic geometry.
Hans-Ulrich Grünberg is a German chess International Master and International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1990) who two times won East Germany Chess Championship and won 16th European Correspondence Chess Championship (1981).
