Martin Isaacs

I. Martin "Marty" Isaacs is a group theorist and representation theorist and professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[1][2][3][4] He currently lives in Berkeley, California and is an occasional participant on MathOverflow.[4]

Academic biography

Isaacs completed his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1964 under Richard Brauer.[5][6] From at least 1979 until 2011, he was a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In May 2011, he retired and became a Professor Emeritus.[1][2][3][4] The Mathematics Genealogy Project lists him as having had 28 doctoral students.[6]

Research

Isaacs is most famous for coming up with the Isaacs-Navarro conjecture along with Gabriel Navarro, a widely cited generalization of the McKay conjecture.[7][8]

Books

Isaacs is famous as the author of Character Theory of Finite Groups (first published 1976), one of the most well-known graduate student-level introductory books in character theory and representation theory of finite groups.[9][10][11]

Isaacs is also the author of the book Finite Group Theory (published 2008).[12][13]

Honors

Isaacs is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[1] He retired in 2011.[3]

In 2009, a conference was held at the Universitat de Valencia in Spain to honor his contributions.[14]

Isaacs is also one of the Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[15]

Isaacs was a Polya lecturer for the Math Association of America. He received the Benjamin Smith Reynolds award for teaching engineering students at the University of Wisconsin and a UW Madison campus teaching award. He was also the recipient of a Sloan Foundation research award.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Emeritus Faculty and Staff Directory". Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
  2. 1 2 "I. Martin Isaacs". University of Wisconsin Madison (Experts Guide). Retrieved May 25, 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 "Emeritus Professor Proposals". Retrieved May 25, 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 "User Marty Isaacs". MathOverflow. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
  5. "Algebra Page". Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
  6. 1 2 "I. Martin (Irving) Isaacs". Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved April 11, 2016.
  7. Isaacs, I. Martin; Navarro, Gabriel (2002). "New refinements of the McKay conjecture for finite groups". Annals of Mathematics 156: 333–344. doi:10.2307/3597192.
  8. "Isaacs-Navarro conjecture". Groupprops, The Group Properties Wiki. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
  9. Isaacs, I. Martin. Character Theory of Finite Groups (Dover Books on Mathematics). ISBN 978-0486680149. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
  10. Curtis, Charles W. (1977). "Character theory of finite groups (book review)". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 83 (5): 1005–1007. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1977-14355-3.
  11. "Google Search results for Isaacs' character theory book on Math StackExchange". Retrieved May 25, 2014.
  12. Isaacs, I. Martin. "Additional Material for the Book (Finite Group Theory)". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
  13. Isaacs, I. Martin (January 1, 2008). Finite Group Theory. American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-4344-4.
  14. "Isaacs Conference: Conference on Character Theory of Finite Groups". June 3–5, 2009. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
  15. "List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
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