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Arunas Rudvalis (born June 8, 1945) is an Emeritus Professor of
Mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...
at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, it ...
. He is best known for the
Rudvalis group In the area of modern algebra known as group theory, the Rudvalis group ''Ru'' is a sporadic simple group of order :   214335371329 : = 145926144000 : ≈ 1. History ''Ru'' is one of the 26 sporadic groups and was found by and c ...
. Rudvalis went to the
Harvey Mudd College Harvey Mudd College (HMC) is a private college in Claremont, California, focused on science and engineering. It is part of the Claremont Colleges, which share adjoining campus grounds and resources. The college enrolls 902 undergraduate students ...
and received his Ph.D. degree in
Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native A ...
under direction of
Ernst Snapper Ernst Snapper (December 2, 1913, Groningen – February 5, 2011, Chapel Hill, North Carolina) was a Dutch-American mathematician, known for his research in "commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, cohomology of groups, character theory, and c ...
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* 1945 births 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Harvey Mudd College alumni Dartmouth College alumni University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty Living people Place of birth missing (living people) {{US-mathematician-stub