{{Infobox scientist | name = Joseph Lipman | image = Joseph lipman.jpg <!--(filename only, i.e. without "File:" prefix)--> | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = Joseph Lipman, Segovia 2006 | birth_date = {{birth date and age |1938|6|15|mf=yes}} | birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | death_date = <!--{{death date and age |YYYY|MM|DD |YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date)--> | death_place = | fields = Mathematics | workplaces = Purdue University | alma_mater = Harvard University<br>University of Toronto | thesis_title = Quasi-ordinary singularities of embedded surfaces | thesis_url = <!--(or | thesis1_url = and | thesis2_url = )--> | thesis_year = 1965 | doctoral_advisor = Oscar Zariski | doctoral_students = | known_for = | awards = Jeffery–Williams Prize (1982) }}
'''Joseph Lipman''' (born June 15, 1938)<ref>''American Men and Women of Science'', Thomson Gale 2004</ref> is a Canadian-American mathematician, working in algebraic geometry.
Lipman graduated from the University of Toronto with a bachelor's degree in 1960 and then went to Harvard University, receiving his master's degree in 1961. He then earned a Ph.D. there in 1965 under the supervision of Oscar Zariski. In 1965 he was an assistant professor at Queen's University in Kingston and in 1966 was an assistant professor at the Purdue University, where he became professor in 1971. From 1987 to 1992, there, he was head of the mathematics department. He was a member of the MSRI and visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge and the University of Nice and a visiting professor at the Columbia University and Harvard University.
He specializes in singularity theory in algebraic geometry.<ref>{{cite book |first=M. |last=Artin |chapter=Lipman's Proof of Resolution of Singularities for Surfaces |title=Arithmetic Geometry |editor-first=Gary |editor-last=Cornell |editor2-first=Joseph H. |editor2-last=Silverman |editor-link2=Joseph H. Silverman |location=New York |publisher=Springer |year=1986 |isbn=0-387-96311-1 |pages=267–287 }}</ref>
In 1958, while studying at the University of Toronto, he became a Putnam Fellow both in the spring and fall William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competitions.<ref name="MMA">{{cite web |title=Putnam Competition Individual and Team Winners |url=http://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/putnam-competition-individual-and-team-winners |publisher=Mathematical Association of America |access-date=December 10, 2021 |archive-date=March 12, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312205244/http://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/putnam-competition-individual-and-team-winners |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1982 he received the Jeffery–Williams Prize. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.<ref>[http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 2013-11-24.</ref>
== Writings == * Collected Papers of Joseph Lipman. Queen's Papers in Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol. 117, Queen's University Press, Kingston, Ontario, 2000. * Editor with Herwig Hauser, Frans Oort, Adolfo Quirós: Resolution of singularities. A research textbook in tribute to Oscar Zariski. Birkhäuser, Basel 2000, {{ISBN|3-7643-6178-6}}. (Progress in Mathematics. volume 181.) * {{cite book |chapter=Introduction to the Resolution of Singularities |editor-first=David |editor-last=Mumford |editor-link=David Mumford |title=Algebraic Geometry (Arcata 1974) |series=Proc. Symp. Pure Math. |volume=29 |publisher=American Mathematical Society |year=1975 }} * {{cite journal |title=Desingularization of Two-Dimensional Schemes |journal=Annals of Mathematics |volume=107 |year=1978 |pages=151–207 |jstor=1971141 |last1=Lipman |first1=Joseph |issue=2 |doi=10.2307/1971141 }}
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== External links == * [http://www.math.purdue.edu/~lipman/ Homepage] * {{Google scholar id}}
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