Dieter Held

Dieter Held (born 1936)[1] is a German mathematician. He is known for discovering the Held group, one of 26 sporadic finite simple groups.[2][3]

Held was a speaker at the 1962 International Congress of Mathematicians.[4] He earned his Ph.D. in 1964 from Goethe University Frankfurt, under the supervision of Reinhold Baer.[5] His discovery of the Held group occurred while he was working in Australia with Zvonimir Janko.[6] Since then, he returned to Germany, and is a University Professor at the University of Mainz.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Birth date from University of Mainz Staff Listing, retrieved 2014-04-08.
  2. ↑ Gorenstein, Daniel (1982), Finite simple groups: an introduction to their classification, University series in mathematics, Plenum Press, p. 85, ISBN 9780306407796.
  3. ↑ Wilson, Robert (2009), "5.8.9 The Held Group", The Finite Simple Groups, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 251, Springer, pp. 263ff, ISBN 9781848009875.
  4. ↑ Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians (PDF), 1962.
  5. ↑ Dieter Held at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  6. ↑ Ronan, Mark (2006), Symmetry and the Monster: One of the greatest quests of mathematics, Oxford University Press, p. 194, ISBN 9780191579387.
  7. ↑ Arbeitsgruppe Gruppentheorie, University of Mainz, retrieved 2014-04-08.
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