Pierre Samuel

| birth_place = Paris | death_date = | death_place = Paris | nationality = French | fields = Mathematics | workplaces = University of Paris | alma_mater = Princeton University | doctoral_advisor = Oscar Zariski | doctoral_students = Daniel Lazard
Artibano Micali
Christian Peskine
Lucien Szpiro | known_for =
Ramanujam–Samuel theorem
Hilbert–Samuel function | awards = ICM Spesker (1958)
Lester R. Ford Award (1969) }} 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. Provided by Wikipedia