Eduardo Casas-Alvero Explained

Eduardo Casas-Alvero (born 1948) is a Spanish mathematician and a professor at the University of Barcelona. His work lies in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, especially curve theory.

Career

Casas-Alvero received his PhD at the University of Barcelona under the direction of in 1975.

Casas-Alvero introduced the Casas-Alvero conjecture characterizing certain polynomials whose factors match their derivatives as powers of a linear polynomial.^[1]

Bibliography

• Casas-Alvero, E. and Xambo-Descamps, S. (1986). The Enumerative Theory of Conics After Halphen. Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Springer.
• Casas-Alvero, E. (2000). Singularities of Plane Curves. London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series. Cambridge University Press.
• Casas-Alvero, E. (2014). Analytic Projective Geometry. EMS Textbooks in Mathematics. European Mathematical Society.
• Casas-Alvero, E. (2019). Algebraic Curves, the Brill and Noether Way. Universitext. Springer.

External links

• Homepage

Notes and References

1. 1292.12001 . Draisma . Jan . de Jong . Johan P. . On the Casas-Alvero conjecture . Eur. Math. Soc. Newsl. . 80 . 29–33 . 2011 . 1027-488X . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304090949/http://www.ems-ph.org/journals/newsletter/pdf/2011-06-80.pdf . 2016-03-04 .