Roger Carter (mathematician)
- Roger Carter (mathematician)
Roger W. Carter is an emeritus professor at University of Warwick. He defined Carter subgroups and wrote the standard reference "Simple Groups of Lie Type". He obtained his PhD in 1960 and his dissertation was entitled "Some Contributions to the Theory of Finite Soluble Groups".
Publications
*R.W. Carter, "Nilpotent self normalizing subgroups of soluble groups" Math. Z. , 75 : 2 (1961) pp. 136–139
*"Simple Groups of Lie Type" by Roger W. Carter, ISBN 0-471-50683-4
*"Lie Algebras of Finite and Affine Type" (Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics) by Roger Carter, ISBN 0-521-85138-6
*Citation | last1=Carter | first1=Roger W. | title=Finite Groups of Lie Type: Conjugacy Classes and Complex Characters | series=Wiley Classics Library | isbn=978-0-471-94109-5
References
*MathGenealogy|id=36347
* [http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/staff/rcwww.html Warwick page]
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