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John Griggs Thompson (born October 13, 1932) is an American mathematician at the University of Florida noted for his work in the field of finite groups. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1970, the Wolf Prize in 1992, and the Abel Prize in 2008.
John Thompson is an American mathematician best known for his proof (with Walter Feit) of one of the most important theorems on finite simple groups. View five larger pictures. Biography. John Thompson studied at Yale University, receiving his B.A. in 1955.
John Griggs Thompson (born October 13, 1932, Ottawa, Kansas, U.S.) is an American mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1970 for his work in group theory.
On the Work of John Thompson. At the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Nice, France, in 1970, John G Thompson was awarded a Fields Medal. Richard Brauer gave a talk describing Thompson's contributions which led to the award of the Fields Medal.
Professor John G. Thompson’s work has changed the face of finite group theory. Already in his thesis he solved a long-standing conjecture reaching back to work of Frobenius at the turn of the century: if a finite group has a fixed-point-free automorphism of finite order, then the group is nilpotent.
John Griggs Thompson was born in Ottawa, Kansas, USA on October 13, 1932, and now holds a position as Graduate Research Professor at the Department of Mathematics, University of Florida in Gainesville.
"Professor John G. Thompson’s work has changed the face of finite group theory. Already in his thesis he solved a long-standing conjecture reaching back to work of Frobenius at the turn of the century…He next turned his attention to the classification of the finite simple groups…
mathematician named John G. Thompson gave the far most important contribution, the so-called Feit-Thompson theorem, which he proved together with Walter Feit in 1962/63. The classification of all finite simple groups did not put an end to group theory, but rather a new start. From the first time Galois used the term group to
John Griggs Thompson (born October 13, 1932, in Ottawa, Kansas, USA) is a mathematician noted for his work in the field of finite groups. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1970 and the 2008 Abel Prize.
John Thompson has made seminal contributions to the theory of finite groups. With Walter Feit he proved the long-standing conjecture that every group of odd order is soluble (or solvable), a result for which he received a Fields Medal in 1970.
