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Graham Higman | |
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| Born | Graham Higman 19 January 1917 Louth, Lincolnshire, England |
| Died | 8 April 2008 (aged 91) Oxford, England |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
| Known for | Higman group Higman's embedding theorem Higman's lemma HNN extension Higman–Sims group Hall–Higman theorem |
| Awards | Senior Berwick Prize (1962) LMS De Morgan Medal (1974) Sylvester Medal (1979) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics, Group theory |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
| Doctoral advisor | J. H. C. Whitehead |
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Graham Higman FRS[1] (19 January 1917 – 8 April 2008) was a prominent English mathematician known for his contributions to group theory.
- ^ Conder, Marston D. E. (2022). "Graham Higman. 19 January 1917—8 April 2008". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 73: 277–290. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2022.0002. S2CID 250093355.