Arunas Rudvalis

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Arunas Rudvalis (born June 8, 1945 in Bavaria ) is an American mathematician who deals with finite groups and their representations, finite geometries and coding theory.

After graduating from Harvey Mudd College in 1965, he was an engineer in the nuclear engineering department of General Dynamics . Rudvalis completed his master's degree at Dartmouth College in 1967 , where he received his doctorate from Ernst Snapper in 1969 (Geometric Permutations Representations of Finite Symplectic, Orthogonal, and Unitary Groups) and was Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics. 1970 to 1972 he was Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan and from 1972 Assistant Professor and from 1975 Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst . A sporadic group that he predicted is named after him. It was designed by John Horton Conway and David Wales.

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  1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Rudvalis, A new simple group of order 2 14 3 3 5 3 7 13 29 , Notices of the American Mathematical Society 1973
  3. ↑ Journal of Algebra, Vol. 27, 1973, p. 539
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SURNAME Rudvalis, Arunas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Bavaria