Richard Dagobert Brauer
1901 - 1977
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Brauer became interested in work on group characters. He formulated a method to classify all finite simple groups and spent the rest of his life working on this problem.
Mathematicians born in the same country
| Honours awarded to Richard Brauer (Click below for those honoured in this way) | |
| AMS Colloquium Lecturer | 1948 |
| AMS Cole Prize in Algebra | 1949 |
| AMS Cole Prize for algebra | 1949 |
| Speaker at International Congress | 1954 |
| American Maths Society President | 1957 - 1958 |
| LMS Honorary Member | 1963 |
Other Web sites
- Encyclopaedia Britannica
- J A Green (LMS obituary)
- AMS (Classification of finite simple groups) [registration required]
- Mathematical Genealogy Project
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