Eduardo Casas-Alvero

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 Josep Teixidor i Batlle [ca] in 1975.^[1]

Casas-Alvero introduced the Casas-Alvero conjecture characterizing certain polynomials whose factors match their derivatives as powers of a linear polynomial.^[2]

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.