Donald G. Higman
Donald G. Higman (September 20, 1928 in
Charles C. Sims, of the Higman–Sims group.[1]
Higman did his undergraduate studies at the University of British Columbia,[1] and received his Ph.D. in 1952 from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign under Reinhold Baer.[2] He served on the faculty of mathematics at the University of Michigan from 1956 to 1998.[1]
His work on
group representation theory established the concept of a relatively-projective module
and explained its role in the theory of module decompositions.
He developed a characterization of rank-2 sporadic simple groups were of this type, including the Higman–Sims group which he and Sims constructed in 1967.[1]
References
- ^ S2CID 17392124.
- ^ Donald G. Higman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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