Mathematician:Graham Higman

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 Donald G. Higman and Charles C. Sims, but studied also by Graham Higman.
 * Higman's Embedding Theorem
 * Higman's Lemma
 * HNN Extension (named after Higman, Bernhard Neumann and Hanna Neumann)

Books and Papers

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