The mathematics of Donald Gordon Higman
History and Overview
2012-08-27 v1
Abstract
This is about the mathematics and life of Donald Gordon Higman, 1928-2006. He did important work in representation theory of groups and algebras and in algebraic combinatorics. Charles C. Sims and Donald Higman discovered and constructed one of the sporadic simple groups.
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@article{arxiv.0901.0971,
title = {The mathematics of Donald Gordon Higman},
author = {Eiichi Bannai and Robert L. Griess, and Cheryl Praeger and Leonard Scott},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.0971},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
43 pages; submitted to Michigan Math Journal for their special memorial issue on Donald Higman (expected in 2009)