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Jonathan Lazare Alperin
From Groupprops
This article is about a American group theorist (a American person working in group theory)
This article is about a person who is alive
This person is currently working at: University of Chicago
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Life
Professional life
- 1959: Received A.B. from Harvard University
- 1960: Received A.M. from Princeton University
- 1961: Received Ph.D. from Princeton University
- 1961-62: Postdoctoral fellow at Oxford University
- 1962-63: C.L.E. Moore instructor at Massachussetts Institute of Technology
- 1963-66: Assistant Professor at University of Chicago
- 1966-70: Associate Professor at University of Chicago
- 1970 onwards: Professor at University of Chicago
Work
Local representation theory
Alperin has contributed significantly to local representation theory and modular representation theory, which deal with the representation of a group in a characteristic dividing the order of the group.
Conjectures due to Alperin:
Principles and general ideas due to Alperin:
- Lie principle relating subgroups in a general finite group to subgroups in a finite group of Lie type
Contemporaries
Advisor
Jon Alperin's advisor was Graham Higman.
Collaborators
Students
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