Andy Magid

{{short description|American mathematician}}

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Andy Roy Magid (born 4 May 1944 in Saint Paul, Minnesota)biographical information from American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004 is an American mathematician.

Magid received in 1966 from the University of California, Berkeley his bachelor's degree{{cite web|title=Retired OU Mathematics University|website=Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma|url=http://www.math.ou.edu/people/emeriti/}} and in 1969 from Northwestern University his PhD under the direction of Daniel Zelinsky with thesis Separable Subalgebras of Commutative Algebras and Other Applications of the Boolean Spectrum.{{MathGenealogy|id=3944|title=Andy Roy Magid}} From 1969 to 1972 Magid was a Ritt Assistant Professor at Columbia University. At the University of Oklahoma he was from 1972 to 1974 an assistant professor, from 1974 to 1977 an associate professor, and from 1977 to 2012 a full professor, retiring as professor emeritus in 2012. From 1989 to 1994 he was the chair of the University of Oklahoma's Department of Mathematics. In 1989 he was named George Lynn Cross Research Professor.

In 1975–1976 Magid was a visiting associate professor at the University of Illinois. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Virginia, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Technion (as Lady Davis Fellow), Bar Ilan University and the University of California, Berkeley.

His research is concerned with commutative algebra, Galois theory of rings, algebraic geometry, algebraic groups, representations of groups and differential Galois theory. He has also published on mathematics education. He is the author or coauthor of over 85 research papers and 5 books.

In 2012 Magid was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.