The mathematics of Donald Gordon Higman

Abstract

This is about the mathematics and life of Donald Gordon Higman, 1928-2006. He did important work in representation theory of groups and algebras and in algebraic combinatorics. Charles C. Sims and Donald Higman discovered and constructed one of the sporadic simple groups.

43 pages; submitted to Michigan Math Journal for their special memorial issue on Donald Higman (expected in 2009)

References in corpus (1)

• Corrections and additions to `` Pieces of $2^d$: existence and uniqueness for Barnes-Wall and Ypsilanti lattices. ''