Ronald "Ron" Mark Solomon (b. 15 December 1948Mathematicians who classified finite groups
) is an American mathematician specializing in the theory of

finite groups In abstract algebra, a finite group is a group (mathematics), group whose underlying set is finite set, finite. Finite groups often arise when considering symmetry of Symmetry in mathematics, mathematical or Symmetry (physics), physical objects, ...

. Solomon studied as an undergraduate at

Queens College Queens College (QC) is a public college in the New York City borough of Queens. Part of the City University of New York system, Queens College occupies an campus primarily located in Flushing. Queens College was established in 1937 and offe ...

and received a PhD in 1971 at

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

under

Walter Feit Walter Feit (October 26, 1930 – July 29, 2004) was an Austrian-born American mathematician who worked in finite group theory and representation theory. His contributions provided elementary infrastructure used in algebra, geometry, topology, ...

with a thesis entitled ''Finite Groups with Sylow 2-Subgroups of the Type of the Alternating Group on Twelve Letters''. In 1972, he began his participation in the classification program for finite simple groups, after hearing a lecture by

Daniel Gorenstein Daniel E. Gorenstein (January 1, 1923 – August 26, 1992) was an American mathematician best remembered for his contribution to the classification of finite simple groups. Gorenstein mastered calculus at age 12 and subsequently matriculated at ...

. He was for two years an instructor at the

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and the academic year 1974–1975 at

Rutgers University Rutgers University ( ), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's C ...

, before he became a professor at

Ohio State University The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States. A member of the University System of Ohio, it was founded in 1870. It is one ...

, where he has remained. In 2006, he received the Levi L. Conant Prize and in 2012 the Leroy P. Steele Prize. In 2012, he was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. With

and Richard Lyons he wrote, and is continuing to write now with Inna Capdeboscq, a series on the second-generation proof of the classification program for finite simple groups. Ten volumes of this series have been published so far.

Works

* with Daniel Gorenstein, Richard Lyons: The classification of the finite simple groups, American Mathematical Society, 9 Volumes, 1994–2021
Solomon "A brief history of the classification of finite simple groups", Bull. of the AMS, Vol.38, No. 3, 2001, pdf file
(paper that won the Conant Prize for 2006) * Abstract algebra, Belmont/California, Thompson Brooks/Cole 2003

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Announcement of Conant Prizes for 2006, pdf File
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