Graham Higman

Graham Higman

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.

He was also a local preacher in the Oxford Circuit of the Methodist Church.

ee also

*Higman–Sims group, named after Donald G. Higman, but studied also by Graham Higman.
*Higman's embedding theorem
*Higman's lemma
*HNN extension

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

References

* [http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2007-8/weekly/170408/coll.htm#3Ref Death notice, Oxford University Gazette, 17 April 2008]

External links

*MacTutor Biography|id=Higman
*MathGenealogy|id=22466
* [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-graham-higman-leading-group-theorist-822756.html Obituary: "Independent"]


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