George Glauberman
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Born | George Isaac Glauberman (1941-03-03) March 3, 1941 (age 83)
New York City, New York, US
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Doctoral advisor | R. H. Bruck |
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Discipline | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Chicago |
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Main interests | Finite simple groups |
George Isaac Glauberman (born 1941) is a mathematician at the University of Chicago who works on finite simple groups. He proved the ZJ theorem and the Z* theorem.
Born in New York City on March 3, 1941, Glauberman did his undergraduate studies at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, graduating in 1961, and earned a master's degree from Harvard University in 1962.[1] He obtained his PhD degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1965, under the supervision of Richard Bruck.[2] He has had 22 PhD students, including Ahmed Chalabi and Peter Landrock. He has co-authored with J. L. Alperin, Simon P. Norton, Zvi Arad, and Justin Lynd.
In 1970 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of MathematiciansatNice. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[3]
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