Robert Arnott Wilson (born 1958) is a retired mathematician in
London
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, England, who is best known for his work on classifying the maximal subgroups of finite
simple group
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s and for the work in the
Monster group
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. 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.
Books
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*''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)
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as editor
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Selected articles
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References
External links
*Wilson's onlin
Atlas of finite group representationsHomepageMathematics Genealogy Project entry on Wilson
1958 births
Living people
20th-century English mathematicians
21st-century English mathematicians
Group theorists
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
English classical violists
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