Professor
Robert L. Griess
University of Michigan
Mathematician; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
Elected
2007
Best known for construction of the Monster sporadic finite simple group. The construction was accomplished by Griess, not only for the first time, but also entirely by hand without the aid of a computer. It was a tour de force. The discovery of this group has touched science and mathematics very deeply. Connections have emerged with areas as diverse as string theory in physics and, within mathematics itself, in very sophisticated numbers theory.
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