Robert Griess
Mathematician, Award Winner
1945 –
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Who is Robert Griess?
Robert Louis Griess, Jr. is a mathematician working on finite simple groups and vertex algebras. Currently, Griess is a professor of mathematics at University of Michigan.
He constructed the monster group using the Griess algebra.
He received the AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for a Seminal Contribution to Research in 2010. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
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- Born
- Oct 10, 1945
Savannah - Also known as
- Robert L. Griess Jr.
- Robert Louis Griess, Jr.
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, University of Chicago
Mathematics
( - 1971)
- PhD, University of Chicago
- Employment
- University of Michigan
- Lived in
- Ann Arbor
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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