Ronald Solomon

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Ronald "Ron" Solomon (born December 15, 1948 in New York City ) is an American mathematician who deals with finite groups.

Solomon studied at Queens College and received his PhD from Yale University in 1971 with Walter Feit ( Finite Groups with Sylow 2-Subgroups of the Type of the Alternating Group on Twelve Letters ). From 1972 he began to participate in the classification program of finite simple groups after hearing a lecture by Daniel Gorenstein . He was a Dickson Instructor at the University of Chicago for two years and at Rutgers University in 1974/75 before becoming a professor at Ohio State University , where he has been teaching ever since. In 2006 he received the Levi L. Conant Prize .

With Gorenstein and Richard Lyons he wrote a multi-volume series on the classification program of finite simple groups as part of a project to check the evidence (GLS project). For The Classification of finite simple groups: groups of characteristic 2 type (AMS, 2011) he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize in 2012 with Lyons, Aschbacher and Stephen D. Smith . In 1997 he received the Ohio State University's Distinguished Teaching Award. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

Fonts

  • with Daniel Gorenstein, Richard Lyons: The classification of the finite simple groups, American Mathematical Society, Mathematical Surveys and Monographs 40.1 to 40.6, 6 volumes, 1994 to 2005
  • Solomon "A brief history of the classification of finite simple groups" , BAMS, vol. 38, 2001, issue 3, PDF file (received the Conant Prize)
  • Abstract algebra, Belmont / California, Thompson Brooks / Cole 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ after Ronan's website on mathematicians researching finite groups
  2. ↑ Ronald Solomon 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
personal data
SURNAME Solomon, Ronald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Solomon, Ron; Solomon, Ronald Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City