Michael Schlessinger
Michael Schlessinger (1937-2025) was a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who worked in algebraic geometry.
Career
[edit]Schlessinger obtained his Ph.D. in 1964 from Harvard University, under the supervision of John Tate.[1]
He proved Schlessinger's theorem about representable functors of Artinian algebras and introduced Lichtenbaum–Schlessinger functors in deformation theory.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ Michael Schlessinger at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-07-14.
