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Michael Vaughan-Lee

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Michael Rogers Vaughan-Lee[1] is a mathematician and retired academic. He was Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford from 1996 to 2010 and a tutor at Christ Church, Oxford, between 1971 and 2010.

Career

Vaughan-Lee completed his Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree at the University of Oxford in 1968 and then taught at Vanderbilt University for two years as an assistant professor.[2] In 1970, he was appointed to a lectureship at the University of Queensland, but resigned the following year[2][3] and returned to the United Kingdom to become a tutor in mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford, where he remained until he retired in 2010.[2] In 1996, he was awarded the title of Professor of Mathematics by the University of Oxford;[4] since retirement in 2010, he has been an emeritus professor.[5]

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Vaughan-Lee specialises in group theory, especially the restricted Burnside problem. He has also made contributions relating to Engel Lie algebras, computational algebra, and other areas.[6]

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