James B. Carrell

James B. Carrell (1940, Seattle) 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.

James Carrell
Born
Seattle, Washington, United States
NationalityAmerican, Canadian
Alma materUniversity of Washington
Known forCarrell–Liebmermann theorem, singularities of Schubert varieties
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of British Columbia

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 Leroy P. Steele Prize for his work Invariant theory, old and new.[3]

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.[4]

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 2015-04-24.
  4. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-04-07.
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