Group theory serves as a fundamental language for describing symmetry in both mathematics and physics. Finite groups, defined by their limited number of elements, are central to modern algebra and ...

Mathematician Walter Feit, a Yale professor for 40 years, died at age 73 after a long illness on July 29, 2004 at the Connecticut Hospice in Branford, CT. Professor Feit was a pure mathematician whose ...

In 2003, a German graduate student named Britta Späth encountered the McKay conjecture, one of the biggest open problems in the mathematical realm known as group theory. At first her goals were ...

The theory of totally disconnected locally compact (t.d.l.c.)~groups has advanced considerably in recent years. Lie groups over the valued fields ℚ p of p-adic numbers and 𝔽 q ((X)) of formal Laurent ...

Michio Suzuki, 72, a University of Illinois mathematician who helped develop finite group theory, died June 1 in Tokyo. Classifying finite simple groups is one of the major accomplishments in algebra ...