Awards & Winners

Michael Aschbacher

Date of Birth 08-April-1944
Place of Birth Little Rock
(Pulaski County, Arkansas, United States of America, Area code 501)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Mathematician
Michael George Aschbacher is an American mathematician best known for his work on finite groups. He was a leading figure in the completion of the classification of finite simple groups in the 1970s and 1980s. It later turned out that the classification was incomplete, because the case of quasithin groups had not been finished. This gap was fixed by Aschbacher and Stephen D. Smith in 2004, in a pair of books comprising about 1300 pages. Aschbacher is currently the Shaler Arthur Hanisch Professor of Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology.

Awards by Michael Aschbacher

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2012


Wolf Prize in Mathematics
(Michael Aschbacher is a principal architect of the classification of finite simple groups. His Impact on the theory of finite groups is extraordinary in its breadth, depth and beauty.)

2011


Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics
(\u201CFor his fundamental contributions to one of the largest mathematical projects ever, the classification of finite simple groups, notably his contribution to the quasi-thin case.)