Daniel Lazard

Daniel Lazard (born December 10, 1941) is a French mathematician and computer scientist. He is emeritus professor at Université Pierre et Marie Curie.
Biography.
Lazard was born in Carpentras. He obtained a PhD from the University of Paris in 1968 for a thesis entitled "Autour de la platitude". His doctoral supervisor was Pierre Samuel.
Lazard began his academic career by working in commutative algebra, especially on flat modules. Around 1970, he began to work in computer algebra, which, soon after, became his main research area. In this field, he is specially interested in multivariate polynomials and more generally in computational algebraic geometry, with emphasis on polynomial system solving.
Prior to Lazard's scheduled retirement at the end of 2004, a conference on polynomial system solving was held at Université Pierre et Marie Curie to celebrate his contributions to computer algebra, polynomial systems solving and applications.