Mathematician:Graham Higman

Mathematician
English mathematician active in the field of group theory.

Nationality
English

History

 * Born: 19 Jan 1917, Louth, Lincolnshire, England
 * Died: 8 April 2008, Oxford, England

Theorems and Definitions

 * Higman-Sims Group, named after and, but studied also by.
 * Higman's Embedding Theorem
 * Higman's Lemma
 * HNN Extension (named after, and )

Publications

 * 1940: The units of group-rings
 * 1949: Embedding theorems for groups (with and )
 * 1956: On the p-Length of p-Soluble Groups and Reduction Theorems for Burnside's Problem (with )
 * 1988: Existentially closed groups (with )