David Eisenbud (born 8 April 1947) is an American mathematician. He is currently Director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. April 8 is the 98th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (99th in leap years). ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), founded in 1982, is a mathematical research institution whose funding sources include the National Science Foundation. ... A professor (Latin: one who publicly professes to be an expert) (or prof for short) is a senior teacher, lecturer and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... Mathematics is often defined as the study of topics such as quantity, structure, space, and change. ... University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (also known as California, Cal, UCB, UC Berkeley, The University of California, or simply Berkeley) is a public, coeducational university situated east of the San Francisco Bay in Berkeley, California, overlooking the Golden Gate. ...

Eisenbud received his PhD in 1970 from the University of Chicago, where he was a student of Saunders Mac Lane and, unofficially, J. C. Robson. He then taught at Brandeis University from 1970 to 1997, during which time he had visiting positions at Harvard, IHES, Bonn, and CNRS). He joined the staff at MSRI in 1997, and took a position at Berkeley at the same time. He has since accepted a second five-year term at MSRI. PhD usually refers to the academic title Doctor of Philosophy PhD can also refer to the manga Phantasy Degree This is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... The University of Chicago is a private research university located primarily in the Hyde Park neigborhood of Chicago, Illinois. ... Saunders Mac Lane (4 August 1909, Taftville, Connecticut - 14 April 2005, San Francisco) was an American mathematician who cofounded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg. ... Brandeis University is a private university in Waltham, Massachusetts. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Harvard University, incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College, is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... IHÉS main building The Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (I.H.É.S.) is a French institute supporting advanced research in mathematics and theoretical physics. ... The main building, viewed from the Hofgarten. ... The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) is one of the most prominent scientific research institutions in France. ...

From 2003 to 2005 Eisenbud was President of the American Mathematical Society. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Eisenbud's mathematical interests include commutative and non-commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, topology, and computational methods in these fields. He has written nearly 150 papers with over 50 co-authors. Notable contributions include the theory of matrix factorizations for maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules over hypersurface rings, the Eisenbud-Goto conjecture on degrees of generators of syzygy modules, and the Buchsbaum-Eisenbud criterion for exactness of a complex. He has had 23 doctoral students. Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics which, as the name suggests, combines abstract algebra, especially commutative algebra, with geometry. ... Topology (Greek topos, place and logos, study) is a branch of mathematics concerned with spatial properties preserved under bicontinuous deformation (stretching without tearing or gluing); these are the topological invariants. ... In mathematics, a hypersurface is some kind of submanifold. ... In mathematics, especially in homological algebra and other applications of Abelian category theory, as well as in group theory, an exact sequence is a (finite or infinite) sequence of objects and morphisms between them such that the image of one morphism equals the kernel of the next. ...

Eisenbud's hobbies are juggling (he has written two papers on the mathematics of juggling) and music.

External links

• Genealogy at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Eisenbud's biographical page at MSRI

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Selected publications

• [[|Eisenbud, David, ]],  () ( 1995). ""  [ Commutative algebra. With a view toward algebraic geometry], , , xvi+785, : New York: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-387-94268-8..