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Boris Shapiro

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Boris Shapiro(born 1957,Moscow,Soviet Union) is aRussian-Swedishmathematician, whose research concernsdifferential equations,commutative algebraandSchubert calculus.The Shapiro–Shapiro conjecture (or simply the Shapiro conjecture) was named after Michael Shapiro and him[1](it is now the well-known Mukhin–Tarasov–Varchenkotheorem[2]).

Shapiro enrolled in thePh.D.program atMoscow State University,Soviet Unionin 1985 as a student ofVladimir Arnold,but his thesis defense was rejected by the examining committee. He then defended the same thesis atStockholm University,Swedenin 1990, and was awarded his Ph.D. He became the most prolific Ph.D. student of Arnold, in terms of academic descendance.[3]He has been a professor at Stockholm University in 1993.[4][5]

Selected papers

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References

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  1. ^"Archived copy"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2015-05-26.Retrieved2015-04-28.{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^Purbhoo, Kevin (2009). "Reality and transversality for Schubert calculus in OG(n,2n+1)".arXiv:0911.2039[math.AG].
  3. ^Boris Shapiroat theMathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^"Archived copy"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2015-05-26.Retrieved2015-04-28.{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^According toGoogle Scholar,as of 21 August 2019, Shapiro's works have been cited 1638 times, and hish-indexis 20:https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=V2gZ4SsAAAAJ
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