Richard Lyons (mathematician)

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Richard Neil Lyons (born 22 January 1945 in New York)^[1] is an American mathematician, specializing in finite group theory.

Lyons received his PhD in 1970 at the University of Chicago under John Griggs Thompson with a thesis entitled Characterizations of Some Finite Simple Groups with Small 2-Rank. Since 1972 he has been a professor at Rutgers University.

With Daniel Gorenstein and Ronald Solomon he wrote a six volume series on the classification program for finite simple groups, a program in which the three of them were major participants. He discovered a sporadic group^[2] which Charles Sims constructed and called the Lyons group Ly.

In 2012 he shared the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition, awarded by the American Mathematical Society, with Michael Aschbacher, Stephen D. Smith, and Ronald Solomon.

Works

with Gorenstein: The local structure of finite groups of characteristic 2 type, American Mathematical Society, 1983
with Daniel Gorenstein, Ronald Solomon: The classification of the finite simple groups, American Mathematical Society, 6 Vols., 1994–2005
with Michael Aschbacher, Stephen D. Smith, Ronald Solomon: The classification of finite simple groups: Groups of characteristic 2 type, American Mathematical Society, 2011

References

↑ Mathematicians who classified finite simple groups
↑ Richard Lyons (1972,5) "Evidence for a new finite simple group", Journal of Algebra 20:540–569, and 34:188–189

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Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 111237688 LCCN: n83047556 ISNI: 0000 0001 0935 4882 GND: 172234360 BNF: cb13493128h MGP: 6626

Persondata
Name	Lyons, Richard
Alternative names	Lyons, Richard Neil
Short description	American mathematician
Date of birth	22 January 1945
Place of birth	New York City
Date of death
Place of death

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