John H. Walter
John Harris Walter (14 December 1927 – 20 September 2021)[1] was an American mathematician known for proving the Walter theorem in the theory of finite groups.
Born in Los Angeles, Walter received from
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign,[3] where he became an associate professor in 1961 and a full professor in 1966. In 2012 he was elected a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[4] He died at the age of 93 in 2021.[5]
Selected publications
- with MR 0142619.
- with Daniel Gorenstein: "The characterization of finite groups with dihedral Sylow 2-subgroups, Parts I, II, III". J. Algebra. 2. 1964. pages 85-151, .
- Walter, John H. (1967). "Finite groups with abelian Sylow 2-subgroups of order 8". Inventiones Mathematicae. 2 (5): 332–376. S2CID 121324944.
- Walter, John H. (1969). "The characterization of finite groups with abelian Sylow 2-subgroups". Annals of Mathematics. 89 (3): 405–514. JSTOR 1970648.
References
- ^ biographical information from Pamela Kalte et al., American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004
- ^ John H. Walter at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ^ Department of Mathematics, Directory, UIUC.
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-09-01.
- ^ "In Memoriam: John H. Walter". UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
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