Richard Foote
Richard Martin Foote (born June 22, 1950 in Chester ) is a Canadian mathematician who deals with finite simple groups (and their classification) and number theory.
Foote studied at the University of Toronto with a bachelor's degree in 1972 and received his doctorate in 1976 from the University of Cambridge with John Griggs Thompson (Finite Groups of Component Type). In 1975/76 and 1978/79 he was a Research Fellow at Trinity College Cambridge and an instructor at Caltech from 1976 to 1978 . In 1979 he became an assistant professor at Rutgers University , 1980 at the University of Minnesota and 1981 at the University of Vermont , where he became professor in 1983.
He is involved in the development of the classification set for finite simple groups by Ronald Solomon , Richard Lyons and Daniel Gorenstein .
Fonts (selection)
- with David Dummit: Abstract Algebra, 3rd edition, Wiley 2004
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Richard Foote in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ↑ Ronald Solomon: The Classification of finite simple groups: A progress report , Notices AMS, June / July 2018, online
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Foote, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Foote, Richard Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chester |