Robert Arnott Wilson
Robert Arnott Wilson (born February 22, 1958 ) is a British mathematician who studies finite groups and their representations, in particular sporadic simple groups and the monster group .
He received his PhD in 1983 from the University of Cambridge with John Horton Conway (Maximal Subgroups of some finite simple groups). Wilson was a professor at the University of Birmingham and is a professor at Queen Mary College, University of London .
Fonts
- with John Horton Conway , Robert Turner Curtis , Simon Phillips Norton , Richard A. Parker : Atlas of finite groups: maximal subgroups and ordinary characters for simple groups. Oxford University Press 1985
- Editor with Robert Curtis: The Atlas of Finite Groups: ten years on, Cambridge University Press 1998
- with Christopher Jansen, Klaus Lux, Richard Parker: An Atlas of Brauer Characters, Oxford University Press 1995
- The finite simple groups, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer Verlag 2009
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Robert Arnott Wilson in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
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| SURNAME | Wilson, Robert Arnott |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1958 |