Graham Higman

Graham Higman

male, 92 years old
mathematician, Waynflete Professorships, Magdalene College, Oxford, Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics, group theory, Erdős number 2…Grouptheorist, The units of group-rings
Graham Higman (b. 19 January 1917) is a leading British mathematician. He is known for his contributions to group theory. He earned his PhD from...
William Burnside

William Burnside

male, deceased (1927)
mathematician, British, Grouptheorist, greenwich, University of Cambridge, wrangler…Group representation, finite group
William Burnside (July 2 1852 - August 21 1927) was an English mathematician. He is known mostly as an early contributor to the theory of finite...
Philip Hall

Philip Hall

male, deceased (1982)
Fellow of the Royal Society, Sylvester Medal, De Morgan Medal, finite group, London Mathematical Society, group theory…Grouptheorist, solvable group
Philip Hall (11 April 1904, Hampstead, London, England – 30 December 1982, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England) was an English mathematician. His ma...
Jacques Tits

Jacques Tits

male, 79 years old
Free University of Brussels alumni, French Academy of Sciences, Université libre de Bruxelles, College de France, emeritus, belgian…finitely generated group, linear group, Grouptheorist, group theory, algebraic group
Jacques Tits is a Belgian mathematician. He has written and cowritten a large number of papers on a number of subjects, principally group theory....
Marshall Hall

Marshall Hall

male, deceased (1990)
Erdős number 2, Algebraist, Emory University, World War II, mathematician, cambridge university…Grouptheorist, group theory
Marshall Hall, Jr. (17 September 1910, St Louis, Missouri - 4 July 1990, London) was an American mathematician who made contributions to group...
Bernhard Neumann

Bernhard Neumann

male, deceased (2002)
Bernhard Hermann Neumann, Adams Prize recipient, School of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Academic of the University of Manchester, Erdős number 2, From Berlin…Grouptheorist, group theory
Bernhard Hermann Neumann was a German-born British mathematician who was one of the leading figures in group theory, greatly influencing the...
Marcus du Sautoy

Marcus du Sautoy

male, 44 years old
mathematician, Alumni of the University of Oxford, All Souls College, London Mathematical Society, Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, Wadham College…Number theorist, Grouptheorist
Marcus du Sautoy (born 1965) is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. Formerly of All Souls College, he is now a fellow of Wadham...
Alfred Young

Alfred Young

male, deceased (1940)
Birdbrook, Clare College, Selwyn College, group theory, Grouptheorist, Monkton Combe School…symmetric group
Alfred Young was a mathematician. He was born in Widnes, Lancashire, England and educated at Monkton Combe School in Somerset. He was a Fellow of...
Richard Brauer

Richard Brauer

male, deceased (1977)
Jewish, Gorenstein-Walter theorem, Jewish American, Brauer's induction theorem, scientist, finite group theory…defect group, Grouptheorist
Richard Dagobert Brauer (February 10, 1901 - April 17, 1977) was a leading German and Jewish American mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract...
Hanna Neumann

Hanna Neumann

female, deceased (1971)
Manchester College of Science and Technology, Nazi, UMIST, Grouptheorist, University of Hull, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science…group theory
Johanna (Hanna) Neumann (February 12 1914 – November 14 1971) was a German mathematician who worked on group theory. Johanna was born in La...