Graham Higman
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Graham Higman FRS (19 January 1917 – 8 April 2008) was a leading British mathematician. He is known for his contributions to group theory.
He earned his PhD from the University of Oxford in 1941. His thesis, The units of group-rings, was written under the direction of J. H. C. Whitehead. From 1960 to 1984 he was the Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics at Magdalen College, Oxford.
Higman was awarded the De Morgan Medal of the London Mathematical Society in 1974. He was the founder of the Journal of Algebra and its editor from 1964 to 1984.
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[edit] See also
- Higman–Sims group, named after Donald G. Higman, but studied also by Graham Higman.
- Higman's embedding theorem
- Higman's lemma
- HNN extension
[edit] Publications
- Graham Higman (1940), "The units of group-rings", Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, (2) 46: 231–248.
- Graham Higman and Elizabeth Scott (1988), Existentially closed groups, LMS Monographs, Clarendon Press, Oxford
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[edit] External links
- O'Connor, John J. & Robertson, Edmund F., “Graham Higman”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- Graham Higman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Obituary: Independent
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