Charles Leedham-Green

Charles Leedham-Green
Charles Leedham-Green
Born	Peebles, Scotland
Residence	UK
Fields	Mathematician
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Doctoral advisor	Kenneth Gravett
Known for	Work on pro-p groups and computational group theory

Charles R. Leedham-Green is a retired professor of mathematics at Queen Mary, University of London, known for his work in group theory. He completed his DPhil at the University of Oxford.^[1]

Along with Leonard Soicher, Leedham-Green designed the product replacement algorithm;^[2] an algorithm within computational group theory that generates random elements of groups by taking a random walk through the group. This algorithm has been implemented in both GAP and MAGMA.

He is responsible for a great body of work in group theory. In recent times, this has involved research in computational group theory and pro-p groups.

The 300th edition of the Journal of Algebra was dedicated to him for his 65th birthday.^[3] On the occasion of his retirement in 2006, the Mathematics Research Centre at Queen Mary held a conference in celebration of his mathematical achievements.^[4]

Selected publications

• Charles R. Leedham-Green, Leonard H. Soicher: Collection from the Left and Other Strategies. J. Symb. Comput. 9(5/6): 665-675 (1990)
• Charles R. Leedham-Green, Cheryl E. Praeger, Leonard H. Soicher: Computing with Group Homomorphisms. J. Symb. Comput. 12(4/5): 527-532 (1991)
• Derek F. Holt, C. R. Leedham-Green, E. A. O'Brien and Sarah Rees: Testing Matrix Groups for Primitivity. Journal of Algebra, Volume 184, Issue 3, 15 September 1996, Pages 795-817
• Derek F. Holt, C. R. Leedham-Green, E. A. O'Brien and Sarah Rees: Computing Matrix Group Decompositions with Respect to a Normal Subgroup. Journal of Algebra, Volume 184, Issue 3, 15 September 1996, Pages 818-838.
• C. R. Leedham-Green and E. A. O'Brien: Tensor Products are Projective Geometries. Journal of Algebra, Volume 189, Issue 2, 15 March 1997, Pages 514-528
• Robert Beals, Charles R. Leedham-Green, Alice C. Niemeyer, Cheryl E. Praeger, Ákos Seress: Permutations With Restricted Cycle Structure And An Algorithmic Application. Combinatorics, Probability & Computing 11(5): (2002)
• C. R. Leedham-Green and E. A. O'Brien: Recognising tensor-induced matrix groups. Journal of Algebra, Volume 253, Issue 1, 1 July 2002, Pages 14–30
• Nigel Boston and Charles Leedham-Green: Explicit computation of Galois p-groups unramified at p. Journal of Algebra, Volume 256, Issue 2, 15 October 2002, Pages 402-413.
• Charles Leedham-Green and Sue McKay: The Structure of Groups of Prime Power Order (2002)
• John J. Cannon, Bettina Eick, Charles R. Leedham-Green: Special polycyclic generating sequences for finite soluble groups. J. Symb. Comput. 38(5): 1445-1460 (2004)
• Robert Beals, Charles R. Leedham-Green, Alice C. Niemeyer, Cheryl E. Praeger and Ákos Seress: Constructive recognition of finite alternating and symmetric groups acting as matrix groups on their natural permutation modules. Journal of Algebra, Volume 292, Issue 1, 1 October 2005, Pages 4–46
• S.P. Glasby, C.R. Leedham-Green and E.A. O'Brien: Writing projective representations over subfields. Journal of Algebra, Volume 295, Issue 1, 1 January 2006, Pages 51–61

External links

• His homepage

References

1. ^ The Mathematics Genealogy Project
2. ^ The Product Replacement Algorithm is Polynomial
3. ^ Journal of Algebra, Volume 300, Issue 1: Computational Algebra Special Issue Celebrating the 65th birthday of Charles Leedham-Green.
4. ^ Groups and Computation 2006: A Leedham-Green Fest.

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