Teo Mora

Ferdinando 'Teo' Mora^[a] is an Italian mathematician, and since 1990 until 2019 a professor of algebra at the University of Genoa.

Life and work

Mora's degree is in mathematics from the University of Genoa in 1974. Mora's publications span forty years; his notable contributions in computergebra are the tangent cone algorithm^[1][2] and its extension of Buchberger theory of Gröbner bases and related algorithm earlier^[3] to non-commutative polynomial rings^[4] and more recently^[5] to effective rings; less significant^[6] the notion of Gröbner fan; marginal, with respect to the other authors, his contribution to the FGLM algorithm.

Mora is on the managing-editorial-board of the journal Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing published by Springer,^[7] and was also formerly an editor of the Bulletin of the Iranian Mathematical Society.

He is the author of the tetralogy Solving Polynomial Equation Systems:

• Solving Polynomial Equation Systems I: The Kronecker-Duval Philosophy, on equations in one variable^[8]
• Solving Polynomial Equation Systems II: Macaulay's paradigm and Gröbner technology, on equations in several variables^[9][8]
• Solving Polynomial Equation Systems III: Algebraic Solving,
• Solving Polynomial Equation Systems IV: Buchberger Theory and Beyond, on the Buchberger algorithm

Personal life

Mora lives in Genoa.^[10] Mora published a book trilogy in 1977-1978 (reprinted 2001-2003) called Storia del cinema dell'orrore on the history of horror films.^[10] Italian television said in 2014 that the books are an "authoritative guide with in-depth detailed descriptions and analysis."^[11]

See also

• FGLM algorithm, Buchberger's algorithm
• Gröbner fan, Gröbner basis
• Algebraic geometry#Computational algebraic geometry, System of polynomial equations