George Rushing Kempf | |
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Born | Globe, Arizona, US | 12 August 1944
Died | 16 July 2002 Lawrence, Kansas, US | (aged 57)
Alma mater | Johns Hopkins University University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Columbia University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematician |
Institutions | Johns Hopkins 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.