Bernd Fischer (mathematician)

Bernd Fischer ( born December 18, 1936 in Endbach ) is a German mathematician who is concerned with the theory of finite groups and discoverer of some of the sporadic groups.

Fischer in 1963 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main at Reinhold Baer doctorate ( Distributive quasigroups of finite order ). He was then a professor in Frankfurt and at the University of Bielefeld, where he is now professor emeritus. 1978/1979 he worked at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Fischer researches on finite simple groups and their classification. He discovered three sporadic groups, which are named after him, the fishermen groups F22, F23 and F24. He also discovered the second largest sporadic group, the so-called Baby Monster group F2. With the help of the Baby Monster group of fishermen and Robert Griess in 1973 independently discovered the monster group F1 as the largest of all sporadic groups. The proof of the existence of the monster group, however, led only by Griess explicit construction of the group.

2002 Fischer received an honorary doctorate from the Justus- Liebig- University of Giessen. In 1978 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki ( sporadic finite simple groups ).

His doctoral include Bernd Stellmacher and Franz Georg Timmesfeld.