William Joseph Haboush (born 1942)Birth year from German National Library catalog, retrieved 2024-03-21 is an American mathematician, a professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.William Haboush, Directory, University of Illinois Department of Mathematics, retrieved 2024-03-21 An algebraic geometer, Haboush is the namesake of Haboush's theorem, which he proved in 1975, resolving a conjecture of David Mumford.. 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".
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.
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