Fyodor Zak

Fyodor L. Zak (Russian: Федор Лазаревич Зак (born Moscow December 2, 1949) is a Russian mathematician working on mathematical economics and algebraic geometry[1] who classified the Scorza varieties.[2]

Publications

• Zak, F. L. (1993), Tangents and secants of algebraic varieties, Translations of Mathematical Monographs, 127, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, ISBN 978-0-8218-4585-1, MR 1234494

References

1. Fedor Zak, Laboratory of Mathematical Economics, CEMI, Russian Academy of Sciences
2. Chiantini, L.; Ciliberto, C. (2001), "Threefolds with degenerate secant variety: on a theorem of G. Scorza", Geometric and combinatorial aspects of commutative algebra (Messina, 1999), Lecture Notes in Pure and Appl. Math., 217, Dekker, New York, pp. 111–124, MR 1824221. See in particular p. 112.

Further reading

• Holme, Audun; Roberts, Joel (1994), "Zak's theorem on superadditivity", Arkiv för Matematik, 32 (1): 99–120, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.134.6662, doi:10.1007/BF02559525, MR 1277922
• Sierra, José Carlos (2011), "A remark on Zak's theorem on tangencies", Mathematical Research Letters, 18 (4): 783–789, arXiv:1203.0208, doi:10.4310/MRL.2011.v18.n4.a15, MR 2831842