Michael Aschbacher
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"Aschbacher" redirects here. For the similar name Äschbacher, see Aeschbacher.
Michael George Aschbacher (born April 8, 1944) is an American mathematician best known for his work on finite groups. He was a leading figure in the completion of the classification of finite simple groups in the 1970s and 1980s. It later turned out that the classification was incomplete, because the case of quasithin groups had not been finished. This gap was fixed by Aschbacher and Stephen D. Smith in 2004, in a pair of books comprising about 1300 pages. Aschbacher is currently the Shaler Arthur Hanisch Professor of Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology.
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Michael Aschbacher | |
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Born | (1944-04-08) April 8, 1944 (age 80) |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | California Institute of Technology University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Known for | Group theory |
Awards | Cole Prize (1980) Rolf Schock Prize (2011) Leroy P. Steele Prize (2012) Wolf Prize (2012) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | California Institute of Technology |
Doctoral advisor | Richard Hubert Bruck |
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