Michael Schlessinger is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who worked in algebraic geometry.
Career
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
Michael Schlessinger at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-07-14.
Hellenica World - Scientific Library
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