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

  1. ^ Home page of James B. Carrell at UBC
  2. ^ James Baldwin Carrell at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ The Leroy P Steele Prize of the AMS, MacTutor history of mathematics archive, retrieved 2021-05-05.
  4. ^ Dieudonné, Jean A.; Carrell, James B. (1970), "Invariant theory, old and new", Advances in Mathematics, 4 (1): 1–80, doi:10.1016/0001-8708(70)90015-0, ISSN 0001-8708, MR 0255525
  5. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-04-07.
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