James B. Carrell
James Carrell | |
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| Born | Seattle, Washington, United States |
| Nationality | American, Canadian |
| Alma mater | University of Washington |
| Known for | Carrell–Liebmermann theorem, singularities of Schubert varieties |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of British Columbia |
James B. Carrell (born 1940) is an American and Canadian mathematician, who is currently an emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.[1] His areas of research are algebraic geometry, Lie theory, transformation groups and differential geometry.
He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Washington (Seattle) under the supervision of Allendoefer.[2] In 1971, together with Jean Dieudonné, he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for the article Invariant theory, old and new.[3][4]
He proved theorems in Schubert calculus about singularities of Schubert varieties. The Carrell–Liebermann theorem on the zero set of a holomorphic vector field is used in complex algebraic geometry.
He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Home page of James B. Carrell at UBC
- ^ James Baldwin Carrell at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ The Leroy P Steele Prize of the AMS, MacTutor history of mathematics archive, retrieved 2021-05-05.
- ^ Dieudonné, Jean A.; Carrell, James B. (1970), "Invariant theory, old and new", Advances in Mathematics, 4: 1–80, doi:10.1016/0001-8708(70)90015-0, ISSN 0001-8708, MR 0255525
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-04-07.
External links
[edit]- Jim Carrell at math.ubc.ca
- Jim Carrell in ca.linkedin.com
- 1940 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- People from Seattle
- Canadian mathematicians
- University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences alumni
- Academic staff of the University of British Columbia Faculty of Science
- American geometers
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- American emigrants to Canada