Simon Norton

Simon Phillips Norton (born February 28, 1952 , † February 14, 2019 ) was an English mathematician who studied group theory.

Norton won gold medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1967, 1968 and 1969 and received his PhD from Cambridge University in 1976 ( and other simple groups , i.e. about the monster group ). He was a Life Associate in Residence at Jesus College, Cambridge . ${\ displaystyle F}$

Norton is known for his 1979 work with John Horton Conway on the "moonshine" properties of the monster group (suggested by John McKay 1978). He worked on the "Atlas of finite groups". In his dissertation in 1975 he constructed the simple finite Harada-Norton group , simultaneously with Kōichirō Harada (* 1941), which is a subgroup of the monster group.

literature

Alexander Masters: Simon. The Genius in My Basement. Delacorte Press, New York NY 2011, ISBN 978-0-385-34108-0 (Review by Marjorie Senechal in The Mathematical Intelligencer . Vol. 35, No. 2, 2013, pp. 76-77, doi : 10.1007 / s00283- 012-9356-2 ).
Siobhan Roberts: Genius at Play. The curious mind of John Horton Conway. Bloomsbury, New York et al. 2015, ISBN 978-1-62040-593-2 (Norton appears in several places in this Conway biography; when Conway was appointed to Princeton, Norton stayed in Cambridge (UK), but remained in loose contact to the daughters from Conway's first marriage.).

Fonts

with John H. Conway, Robert T. Curtis , Richard A. Parker , Robert A. Wilson : Atlas of finite groups. Maximum subgroups and ordinary characters for simple groups. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1985, ISBN 0-19-853199-0 .

Remarks

↑ Biography of his tenant (the title is misleading, Norton was the author's landlord). The picture is of an eccentric mathematical genius who is still mathematically active (with an office at Cambridge University, but without a permanent position, which he does not need because he is wealthy by default), but mainly deals with hobbies such as timetables .

personal data
SURNAME	Norton, Simon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Norton, Simon Phillips (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	February 28, 1952
DATE OF DEATH	February 14, 2019

[1] Biography of his tenant (the title is misleading, Norton was the author's landlord). The picture is of an eccentric mathematical genius who is still mathematically active (with an office at Cambridge University, but without a permanent position, which he does not need because he is wealthy by default), but mainly deals with hobbies such as timetables .