Robert Arnott Wilson
Encyclopedia
Robert Arnott Wilson is a mathematician in London
, England
, who is best known for his work on classifying the maximal subgroups of finite simple group
s and for the work in the Monster group
.
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, who is best known for his work on classifying the maximal subgroups of finite simple group
Simple group
In mathematics, a simple group is a nontrivial group whose only normal subgroups are the trivial group and the group itself. A group that is not simple can be broken into two smaller groups, a normal subgroup and the quotient group, and the process can be repeated...
s and for the work in the Monster group
Monster group
In the mathematical field of group theory, the Monster group M or F1 is a group of finite order:...
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Books
- An Atlas of Brauer Characters (London Mathematical Society Monographs) by Christopher Jansen, Klaus Lux, Richard Parker, Robert Wilson. Oxford University Press, USA (October 1, 1995) ISBN 0-19-851481-6