Group theorists

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 55. Chapters: John Horton Conway, Évariste Galois, Niels Henrik Abel, Felix Klein, Sophus Lie, Richard Borcherds, Arthur Cayley, John R. Stallings, James W. Cannon, John McKay, Karen Vogtmann, Brian Bowditch, Zlil Sela, Mladen Bestvina, Rostislav Grigorchuk, Marcus du Sautoy, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, Arthur Byron Coble, Henry Mann, John G. Thompson, Mikhail Gromov, Jacques Tits, Theodor Molien, Richard Brauer, Yozo Matsushima, Sergei Adian, James Alexander Green, Issai Schur, Joseph Gallian, Guido Zappa, Stephen Arthur Jennings, Max Dehn, William Burnside, Irving Kaplansky, Charles Leedham-Green, Michio Suzuki, Bertram Huppert, Camille Jordan, Michael Aschbacher, Philip Hall, Jonathan Lazare Alperin, Joseph Bernstein, László Pyber, Hanna Neumann, Hellmuth Kneser, Marshall Hall, Geoff Smith, Robert Fricke, David Harbater, Graham Higman, Walter Feit, Otto Hölder, George Glauberman, Daniel Gorenstein, Helmut Ulm, James Wiegold, Friedrich Wilhelm Levi, Bernhard Neumann, Bhama Srinivasan, Cheryl Praeger, Roger Evans Howe, Hermann Rothe, Walther von Dyck, Alfred Young, Brian Hartley, Wilhelm Magnus, Klaus Fischer, Dan Segal, Charles Sims, Mark Ronan, Richard A. Parker, Donald G. Higman, Hans Julius Zassenhaus, Gilbert Baumslag, Robert Arnott Wilson, Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann, Pyotr Novikov, Robert Steinberg, Christine Hamill, Simon P. Norton, Émile Léonard Mathieu, Käte Fenchel, Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow, Giovanni Frattini, Dudley E. Littlewood, Hans Fitting, Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Andrew Ogg, Zvonimir Janko, R. L. Griess, Roger Carter, John Britton, Otto Schreier, Panos Papasoglu, Edna Grossman, George Abram Miller. Excerpt: John Robert Stallings Jr. (July 22, 1935 - November 24, 2008) was a mathematician known for his seminal contributions to geometric group theory and 3-manifold topology. Stallings was a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley where he had been a faculty member since 1967. He published over 50 papers, predominantly in the areas of geometric group theory and the topology of 3-manifolds. Stallings' most important contributions include a proof, in a 1960 paper, of the Poincaré Conjecture in dimensions greater than six and a proof, in a 1971 paper, of the Stallings theorem about ends of groups. John Stallings was born on July 22, 1935 in Morrilton, Arkansas. Stallings received his B.Sc. from University of Arkansas in 1956 (where he was one of the first two graduates in the university's Honors program) and he received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Princeton University in 1959 under the direction of Ralph Fox. After completing his PhD, Stallings held a number of postdoctoral and faculty positions, including being an NSF postdoctoral fellow at Oxford University as well as and instructorship and a faculty appointment at Princeton. Stallings joined the University of California at Berkeley as a faculty member in 1967 where he remained until his retirement in 1994. Even after his retirement, Stallings continued supervising UC Berkeley graduate students until 2005. Stallings was an Alfred P. Sloan Research fellow from 1962-65 and a Miller Institute fellow from 1972-73. Over the course of his career, Stallings had 22 doctoral students and 60 doctoral descendants. He published over 50 papers, predominantly in the areas of geometric group theory and the topology of 3-manifolds. Stallings delivered an invited address as the International Congres...