Group theory serves as a fundamental language for describing symmetry in both mathematics and physics. Finite groups, defined by their limited number of elements, are central to modern algebra and ...

Fusion systems have emerged as a powerful conceptual framework that encapsulates the conjugation relationships among p-subgroups of finite groups. This categorical approach not only unifies aspects of ...

Mathematician Walter Feit, a Yale professor for 40 years, died at age 73 after a long illness on July 29, 2004 at the Connecticut Hospice in Branford, CT. Professor Feit was a pure mathematician whose ...

Michio Suzuki, 72, a University of Illinois mathematician who helped develop finite group theory, died June 1 in Tokyo. Classifying finite simple groups is one of the major accomplishments in algebra ...

In 2003, a German graduate student named Britta Späth encountered the McKay conjecture, one of the biggest open problems in the mathematical realm known as group theory. At first her goals were ...

A type of symmetry so unusual that it was called a “pariah” turns out to have deep connections to number theory. In 1892, the mathematician Otto Hölder posed a question that would occupy the field for ...

Professor Graham Higman (by Norman Blamey, 1984): he contributed both to finite and infinite group theory Professor Graham Higman, who has died aged 91, was Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics at ...

Call a complex polynomial f(x,y) _expanding_ if there is e>0 such that for all sufficiently large finite sets A and B of complex numbers with |B| >= |A|, we have |f(A,B)| > |A|^{1+e}. A result of ...

PASADENA – Michael Aschbacher, the Shaler Arthur Hanisch Professor of Mathematics at Caltech, will share the 2012 Wolf Prize in mathematics, Caltech officials announced Wednesday. The $100,000 award ...