Michio Suzuki

This article is about a Japanese group theorist (a Japanese person working in group theory)

Life

Personal life

Michio Suzuki (2 October 1926-31 May 1998) was a Japanese group theorist.

Work

Group theory

While at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Suzuki produced many notable papers:

• 1950: The lattice of subgroups of a finite group (Japanese)
• 1950: On finite groups with a complete partition
• 1951: On the lattice of subgroups of a finite group
• 1951: On the L-homomorphisms of finite groups
• 1951: A characterization of simple groups LF(2,p)

In 1968, Suzuki came up with the Suzuki sporadic group, a sporadic simple group.