Jonathan Lazare Alperin (; born 1937) is an
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mathematician
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specializing in the area of
algebra
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known as
group theory
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. He is notable for his work in group theory which has been cited over 500 times according to the
Mathematical Reviews
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. The
Alperin–Brauer–Gorenstein theorem In mathematics, the Alperin–Brauer–Gorenstein theorem characterizes the finite simple groups with quasidihedral or wreathedA 2-group is wreathed if it is a nonabelian semidirect product of a maximal subgroup that is a direct product of two cyc ...
is named after him.
Biography
Alperin attended school at
Princeton University
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and wrote his Ph.D. dissertation in 1961 "''On a Special Class of Regular p-Groups''" under the direction of
Graham Higman
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Higman was born in Louth, Lincolnshire, and attended Sutton High School, Plymouth, winning a ...
. He was awarded a
Guggenheim Fellowship
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in 1974. He has several times (1969, 1979, and 1983) been a visiting scholar at the
Institute for Advanced Study
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. In 2012 he became a fellow of the
American Mathematical Society
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.
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retrieved 2012-11-03.
Alperin was a professor at the University of Chicago
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. He has published over 60
papers and his work has been cited over 500 times.
He is also known for his conjecture, , a topic of current research in modular representation theory
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, and for his work on the local control of fusion, , part of local group theory. In , the Alperin–Brauer–Gorenstein theorem In mathematics, the Alperin–Brauer–Gorenstein theorem characterizes the finite simple groups with quasidihedral or wreathedA 2-group is wreathed if it is a nonabelian semidirect product of a maximal subgroup that is a direct product of two cyc ...
was proven, giving the classification of finite simple group
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s with quasi-dihedral Sylow 2-subgroups.
Selected bibliography
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References
External links
* Mathematical Reviews
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Home page at Chicago
Short biography
in the Notices of the AMS
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20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Group theorists
Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars
University of Chicago faculty
Princeton University alumni
1937 births
Living people
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society