Ronald "Ron“ Mark Solomon (b. 15 December 1948Mathematicians who classified finite groups
) is an American mathematician specializing in the theory of

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. Solomon studied as an undergraduate at Queens College and received a PhD in 1971 at

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under Walter Feit with a thesis entitled ''Finite Groups with Sylow 2-Subgroups of the Type of the Alternating Group on Twelve Letters''. In 1972, he began his participation in the classification program for finite simple groups, after hearing a lecture by

Daniel Gorenstein Daniel E. Gorenstein (January 1, 1923 – August 26, 1992) was an American mathematician. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Harvard University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1950 under Oscar Zariski, introducing in his dissertati ...

. He was for two years an instructor at the

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and the academic year 1974–1975 at

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, before he became a professor at

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, where he has remained. In 2006, he received the Levi L. Conant Prize and in 2012 the

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. In 2012, he was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. With Gorenstein and Richard Lyons he wrote a series of six volumes on the classification program for finite simple groups in the context of a project for the examination of the proof.

Works

* with Daniel Gorenstein, Richard Lyons: The classification of the finite simple groups, American Mathematical Society, 6 Volumes, 1994–2005
Solomon "A brief history of the classification of finite simple groups", Bull. of the AMS, Vol.38, No. 3, 2001, pdf file
(paper that won the Conant Prize for 2006) * Abstract algebra, Belmont/California, Thompson Brooks/Cole 2003

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