# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-sims
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:14:35.577Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-sims"
name: "Charles Sims"
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description: "Charles Coffin Sims was an American mathematician best known for his work in group theory. Together with Donald G. Higman he discovered the Higman–Sims group, one of the sporadic groups. The permutation group software developed by Sims also led to the proof of existence of the Lyons group and the O'Nan group."
tagline: "American mathematician (1937–2017)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1937-04-14"
deathDate: "2017-10-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump