George Isaac Glauberman (born 1941) is a

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at the

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who works on

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s. He proved the

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and the Z^* theorem. Born in

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on March 3, 1941, Glauberman did his undergraduate studies at the

Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn The New York University Tandon School of Engineering (commonly referred to as Tandon) is the engineering and applied sciences school of New York University. Tandon is the second oldest private engineering and technology school in the United Sta ...

, graduating in 1961, and earned a master's degree from

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in 1962. He obtained his PhD degree from the

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in 1965, under the supervision of

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. He has had 22 PhD students, including

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and

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, the president and founder of

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. He has co-authored with J. L. Alperin,

Simon P. Norton Simon Phillips Norton (28 February 1952 – 14 February 2019)

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, and Justin Lynd. In 1970 he was an

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. In 2012 he became a fellow of the

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retrieved 2013-01-19.

Selected publications

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References

External links

Home page of George Glauberman
at the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Glauberman, George 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Group theorists Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni Harvard University alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni University of Chicago faculty Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Scientists from New York City 1941 births Living people Mathematicians from New York (state)

Selected publications

See also

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