Andrew Pollard Ogg (born April 9, 1934, Bowling Green, Ohio) is an American mathematician, a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.[ Faculty listing, Berkeley mathematics, retrieved 2011-04-09.]
Education
Ogg was a student at Bowling Green State University in the mid 1950s.
Ogg received his Ph.D. in 1961 from Harvard University under the supervision of John Tate.
Career
Ogg worked in
algebra and
number theory. His accomplishments include the Grothendieck–Ogg–Shafarevich formula, Ogg's formula for the conductor of an elliptic curve, the Néron–Ogg–Shafarevich criterion and the 1975 characterization of supersingular primes, the starting point for the theory of monstrous moonshine.
[.] He also posed the torsion conjecture in 1973
and is the author of the book
Modular forms and Dirichlet series (W. A. Benjamin, 1969).
