Daniel Lazard (born December 10, 1941) is a French mathematician and computer scientist.

[citation needed] His undergraduate education was at the École Normale Supérieure.

To mark his retirement at the end of 2004, there was a conference at Pierre and Marie Curie University devoted to his subject area.

[3] In 2009, a special issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation was published in his honor.

[4] To date, Lazard has authored or co-authored more than 40 journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, and other publications.