William Haboush Explained

William Joseph Haboush (born 1942)^[1] is an American mathematician, a professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.^[2] An algebraic geometer, Haboush is the namesake of Haboush's theorem, which he proved in 1975, resolving a conjecture of David Mumford.^[3]

Haboush completed a Ph.D. in 1969 at Columbia University. His dissertation, A Theory of Codimension One Phenomena with an Application to the Theory of Purely Inseparable Descent, was jointly supervised by Heisuke Hironaka and Raymond Hoobler.

Notes and References

1. Birth year from German National Library catalog, retrieved 2024-03-21
2. https://math.illinois.edu/directory/profile/whaboush William Haboush
3. . See reviews by Vladimir Popov,, "In this paper the author proves Mumford's famous conjecture on geometrically reductive groups", and by A. G. Elašvili,, "In this paper the Mumford conjecture is proved".