Robert Turner Curtis

Robert Turner Curtis (* 1946 ) is a British mathematician who studies group theory.

Curtis attended the school in Winkleigh (North Devon) from 1951 to 1957 and then until 1964 the school in Crediton in Devon. From 1964 he studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge (Sidney Sussex College) with a bachelor's degree in 1967 and the completion of part 3 of the Tripos exams in 1968. He received his doctorate in 1972 under John Horton Conway in Cambridge (On the Mathieu Group M 24 and related topics) and was a post-doctoral student at Caltech . Together with John Horton Conway, Simon Norton , Richard A. Parker , and Robert Arnott Wilson, he is the author of the Atlas of Finite Groups of 1985, as an addition to the classification program of finite simple groups, important properties of these groups were compiled. For this he had a research position in Conway's group in Cambridge from 1972 to 1979, but was also visiting professor at Bowdoin College in the USA from 1976 to 1979 . From 1979 to 1980 he traveled through Latin America. In 1980 he became a Lecturer at the University of Birmingham , where he was Senior Lecturer in 1991, Reader in 1996 and Professor in 1998.

Fonts

• John Horton Conway, Simon Norton, Richard A. Parker, Robert Arnott Wilson: Atlas of Finite Groups, Maximal Subgroups and Ordinary Characters for Simple Groups. Oxford University Press, 1985, ISBN 0-19-853199-0 .

Web links

• Website at the University of Birmingham with CV
• Literature by and about Robert Turner Curtis in the WorldCat bibliographic database