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Michael Aschbacher

American mathematician · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1944 · age 82

Michael George Aschbacher is an American mathematician best known for his work on finite groups. He was a leading figure in the completion of the classification of finite simple groups in the 1970s and 1980s.

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2013Fellow of the American Mathematical SocietyAward2012Steele Prize for Mathematical ExpositionAwardWolf Prize in MathematicsAward2011Rolf Schock Prize in MathematicsAward1980Cole Prize in AlgebraAward1944Born8 April 1944

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Fellow of the American Mathematical Society2013
Wolf Prize in Mathematics2012
Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition2012
Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics2011
Cole Prize in Algebra1980
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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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 Stephen D. Smith in 2004, in a pair of books comprising about 1300 pages. Aschbacher is currently the Shaler Arthur Hanisch Professor of Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology.

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Born 1944 · age 82

The same award as Michael

George LusztigBoth received Cole Prize in AlgebraElliott H. LiebBoth received Rolf Schock Prize in MathematicsHans LewyBoth received Wolf Prize in MathematicsRichard SchoenBoth received Wolf Prize in MathematicsRichard BrauerBoth received Cole Prize in AlgebraRichard P. StanleyBoth received Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics