Daniel Lazard

Daniel Lazard was born in Carpentras, in southern France. After his undergraduate education at the University of Paris VI, he obtained a Ph.D. in 1968 under the supervision of the commutative algebraist Pierre Samuel, with the dissertation "Autour de la platitude" ("Around flatness").[2]

After 1970, his main area of research changed to computer algebra, particularly multivariate polynomials, computational algebraic geometry and systems of polynomial equations. To mark his retirement at the end of 2004, there was a conference at the University of Paris VI devoted to his subject area.[3]

• Lazard, Daniel (1969), "Autour de la platitude", Bulletin de la Société Mathématique de France (in French), 97: 81–128, doi:10.24033/bsmf.1675
• Lazard, Daniel (1981), "Résolution des systèmes d'équations algébriques", Theoretical Computer Science (in French), 15: 77–110, doi:10.1016/0304-3975(81)90064-5
  • Lazard, Daniel (2001), translated by Michael Abramson, "Solving systems of algebraic equations", ACM SIGSAM Bulletin, 35 (3): 11–37, doi:10.1145/569746.569750, S2CID 5244703
• Lazard, Daniel (1992), "Solving zero-dimensional algebraic systems", Journal of Symbolic Computation, 13 (2): 117–131, doi:10.1016/s0747-7171(08)80086-7.
• Faugère, Jean-Charles; Gianni, Patrizia; Lazard, Daniel; Mora, Teo (1993), "Efficient computation of zero-dimensional Gröbner bases by change of ordering", Journal of Symbolic Computation, 16 (4): 329–344, doi:10.1006/jsco.1993.1051, MR 1263871
• Lazard, Daniel (2009), "Thirty years of Polynomial System Solving, and now?", Journal of Symbolic Computation, 44 (3): 222–231, doi:10.1016/j.jsc.2008.03.004
• ICPSS, International Conference on Polynomial System Solving, and special issue of Journal of Symbolic Computation, in honor of Daniel Lazard, archived from the original on 26 April 2012

• Daniel Lazard at the Mathematics Genealogy Project