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.Home page of James B. Carrell at UBC 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. In 1971, together with Jean Dieudonné, he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for the article Invariant theory, old and new.The Leroy P Steele Prize of the AMS, MacTutor history of mathematics archive, retrieved 2021-05-05.
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.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-04-07.
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External links Jim Carrell at math.ubc.ca in ca.linkedin.com