Michael Aschbacher
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Michael Aschbacher (born April 8, 1944) is Shaler Arthur Hanisch Professor of Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology. He works on finite groups.
He got his B. S. from the California Institute of Technology in 1966 and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1969.
He was the leading figure in the last decade of the classification of finite simple groups from about 1970 to 1980. It later turned out that the classification was incomplete, because the case of quasithin groups had not been finished. This gap was fixed by Aschbacher and Smith, in a pair of books comprising about 1300 pages.
He was awarded the Cole Prize in 1980, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1990.
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- The classification of quasithin groups I and II, (with Stephen D. Smith) ISBN 0-8218-3410-X and ISBN 0-8218-3411-8
- Finite group theory ISBN 0-521-78675-4
- Sporadic groups ISBN 0-521-42049-0
- 3-Transposition groups ISBN 0-521-57196-0
- The finite simple groups and their classification ISBN 0-300-02449-5
- Overgroups of Sylow subgroups in sporadic groups ISBN 0-8218-2344-2
