George Glauberman

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::summary American mathematician (born 1941) ::

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name	George Glauberman
birth_name	George Isaac Glauberman
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birth_place	New York City, New York, US
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doctoral_advisor	R. H. Bruck
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discipline	Mathematics
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workplaces	University of Chicago
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main_interests	Finite simple groups
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Born in New York City on March 3, 1941, Glauberman did his undergraduate studies at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, graduating in 1961, and earned a master's degree from Harvard University in 1962. He obtained his PhD degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1965, under the supervision of Richard Bruck. He has had 22 PhD students, including Ahmed Chalabi and Peter Landrock. He has co-authored with J. L. Alperin, Simon P. Norton, Zvi Arad, and Justin Lynd.

In 1970 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Nice. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Selected publications

References

References

1. [http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~gg/ggcv.html Curriculum vitae], retrieved 2013-07-21.
2. {{MathGenealogy
3. [https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 2013-01-19.

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