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Michael Schlessinger

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Michael Schlessinger is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who worked in algebraic geometry.

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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]

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