What is Lucien Szpiro?
{{ Infobox scientist | name = Lucien Szpiro | image = Lucien Szpiro.jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1941|12|23}} | birth_place = [[Paris]], France | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2020|4|18|1941|12|23}} | death_place = Paris, France | nationality = [[France|French]] | fields = [[Mathematics]] | workplaces = [[City University of New York]]{{br}}[[French National Centre for Scientific Research|CNRS]] | alma_mater = [[Paris-Sud 11 University]] | doctoral_advisor = [[Pierre Samuel]]<br>[[Maurice Auslander]] | doctoral_students = [[Emmanuel Ullmo]]<br>[[Shou-Wu Zhang]] | known_for = [[Szpiro's conjecture]] | awards = [[French Academy of Sciences|Prix Doistau-Blutel]] (1987){{br}}Fellow of the [[American Mathematical Society]] (2012){{br}}[[Member of the Academia Europaea]] }} '''Lucien Szpiro''' (23 December 1941 – 18 April 2020)<ref name=NEW>{{Cite web|url=https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=11717|title=Lucien Szpiro 1941-2020 &#124; Not Even Wrong}}</ref> was a [[France|French]] [[mathematician]]. He was known for his work in [[number theory]], [[arithmetic algebraic geometry]], and [[commutative algebra]]. He was a Distinguished Professor at the [[Graduate Center, CUNY|CUNY Graduate Center]]. He helped create [[Szpiro's conjecture]]. In 2014, he was made a member of the [[Academia Europaea]]. Szpiro died on 18 April 2020 from [[heart failure]] in [[Paris]], aged 78.<ref name=NEW/> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *{{cite web| url=http://math.gc.cuny.edu/faculty/szpiro/People_Faculty_Szpiro.html|title= Website at CUNY}} *{{cite web| url=http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Faculty/Core-Bios/Lucien-Szpiro| title=Short biography| access-date=2020-04-19| archive-date=2020-08-05| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805023709/https://gc.cuny.edu/Faculty/Core-Bios/Lucien-Szpiro| url-status=dead}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Szpiro, Lucien}} [[Cate