Michael Schlessinger is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the

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who worked in algebraic geometry.

Career

Schlessinger obtained his Ph.D. in 1964 from

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, under the supervision of John Tate. He proved Schlessinger's theorem about representable functors of Artinian algebras and introduced Lichtenbaum–Schlessinger functors in

deformation theory In mathematics, deformation theory is the study of infinitesimal conditions associated with varying a solution ''P'' of a problem to slightly different solutions ''P''ε, where ε is a small number, or a vector of small quantities. The infinitesi ...

. In 2012 he became a fellow of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings ...

.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2013-07-14.

References

External links

Michael Schlessinger UNC page
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