Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

Robert Arnott Wilson

Mathematician (born 1958) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Remove ads

Robert Arnott Wilson (born 1958) is a retired mathematician in London, England, who is best known for his work on classifying the maximal subgroups of finite simple groups and for the work in the Monster group. He is also an accomplished violin, viola and piano player, having played as the principal viola in the Sinfonia of Birmingham. Due to a damaged finger, he now principally plays the kora.[1]

Quick facts Nationality, Alma mater ...
Remove ads

Books

  • Conway, John Horton; Curtis, Robert Turner; Norton, Simon Phillips; Parker, Richard A; Wilson, Robert Arnott (1985). Atlas of finite groups: maximal subgroups and ordinary characters for simple groups. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-853199-9.
  • An Atlas of Brauer Characters (London Mathematical Society Monographs) by Christopher Jansen, Klaus Lux, Richard Parker, Robert Wilson. Oxford University Press, USA (1 October 1995) ISBN 0-19-851481-6
  • Wilson, Robert A. (2009). The finite simple groups. Graduate Texts in Mathematics. Vol. 251. Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/978-1-84800-988-2. ISBN 978-1-84800-987-5. Zbl 1203.20012.

as editor

Remove ads

Selected articles

Remove ads

References

Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads