George Glauberman | |
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Born | George Isaac Glauberman (1941-03-03)March 3, 1941 (age 84) |
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Alma mater | |
Doctoral advisor | R. H. Bruck |
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Discipline | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Chicago |
Doctoral students | |
Main interests | Finite simple groups |
George Isaac Glauberman (born 1941) is amathematician at theUniversity of Chicago who works onfinite simple groups. He proved theZJ theorem and theZ* theorem.
Born inNew York City on March 3, 1941, Glauberman did his undergraduate studies at thePolytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, graduating in 1961, and earned a master's degree fromHarvard University in 1962.[1] He obtained hisPhD degree from theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison in 1965, under the supervision ofRichard Bruck.[2] He has had 22 PhD students, includingAhmed Chalabi andPeter Landrock. He has co-authored withJ. L. Alperin,Simon P. Norton,Zvi Arad, and Justin Lynd.
In 1970 he was aninvited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians atNice. In 2012 he became a fellow of theAmerican Mathematical Society.[3]