Pierre Samuel

Pierre Samuel
Born(1921-09-12)12 September 1921
Died23 August 2009(2009-08-23) (aged 87)
Paris
NationalityFrench
Alma materPrinceton University
Known forAdequate equivalence relation
Ramanujam–Samuel theorem
Hilbert–Samuel function
AwardsICM Spesker (1958)
Lester R. Ford Award (1969)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Paris
Doctoral advisorOscar Zariski
Doctoral studentsDaniel Lazard
Artibano Micali
Christian Peskine
Lucien Szpiro

Pierre Samuel (12 September 1921 23 August 2009) was a French mathematician, known for his work in commutative algebra and its applications to algebraic geometry. The two-volume work Commutative Algebra that he wrote with Oscar Zariski is a classic. Other books of his covered projective geometry and algebraic number theory.