George Kempf
| George Rushing Kempf | |
|---|---|
| Born |
12 August 1944 Globe, Arizona |
| Died |
16 July 2002 (aged 57) Lawrence, Kansas |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins University |
| Alma mater |
Johns Hopkins University University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Columbia University |
| Doctoral advisor | Steven Kleiman |
George Rushing Kempf (Globe, Arizona, August 12, 1944 – Lawrence, Kansas, July 16, 2002) was a mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry, who proved the Riemann–Kempf singularity theorem, the Kempf–Ness theorem, the Kempf vanishing theorem, and who introduced Kempf varieties.
References
- Mumford, David (2002), "In memoriam: George R. Kempf 1944–2002" (PDF), American Journal of Mathematics, 124 (6): iii–iv, ISSN 0002-9327, MR 1939780, doi:10.1353/ajm.2002.0040
- George Kempf at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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