Richard Lyons (mathematician)

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Richard Neil Lyons (born January 22, 1945 in New York ) is an American mathematician who works with finite groups.

Lyons attended Harvard University and received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1970 with John Griggs Thompson ( Characterizations of Some Finite Simple Groups with Small 2-Rank ). Other of his teachers in Chicago were Jon Alperin , Richard Brauer , Marty Isaacs , Leonard Scott and George Glauberman . He was also briefly at Cambridge University during his graduate studies . As a post-graduate student , he was a Gibbs instructor at Yale University . He has been a professor at Rutgers University since the late 1970s . He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

With Daniel Gorenstein and Ronald Solomon , he wrote a multi-volume series on the classification program of finite simple groups in which he was involved (GLS project, laid out in 12 volumes, volume 8 will appear in 2018). He discovered a sporadic simple group named after him and constructed by Charles Sims .

Fonts

  • with Gorenstein: The local structure of finite groups of characteristic 2 type , American Mathematical Society, 1983
  • with Daniel Gorenstein, Ronald Solomon : The classification of the finite simple groups , American Mathematical Society, 6 volumes, 1994 to 2005
  • with Solomon, Michael Aschbacher , Stephen D. Smith Classification of finite simple groups: groups of characteristic 2-type , Surveys and Monographs of the AMS, Volume 172, 2011 (the book won the Leroy P. Steele Prize 2012)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ after Ronan's website on mathematicians researching finite groups
  2. ↑ Richard Lyons in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  3. ↑ Ronald Solomon: The Classification of finite simple groups: A progress report , Notices AMS, June / July 2018, online
  4. ↑ Richard Lyons: Evidence for a new finite simple group , Journal of Algebra Vol. 20, 1972, pp. 540-569, Vol. 34, 1975, pp. 188-189
personal data
SURNAME Lyons, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lyons, Richard Neil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City