Ronald Solomon

Ronald "Ron" Solomon ( * December 15, 1948 ) is an American mathematician who deals with finite groups.

Solomon studied at Queens College and received his doctorate in 1971 from Yale University with Walter Feit (Finite Groups with Sylow 2- subgroups of the type of the Alternating Group on Twelve Letters ). From 1972, his involvement began on classification program of the finite simple groups, after he heard a lecture by Daniel Gorenstein. He was two years Dickson Instructor at the University of Chicago and 1974/75 at Rutgers University before he became a professor at Ohio State University, where he teaches since then. In 2006 he received the Levi L. Conant Prize -.

With Gorenstein and Richard Lyons he wrote a multi-volume series on the classification program of the finite simple groups as part of a project to review the evidence. For The Classification of finite simple groups: groups of characteristic 2 type (AMS, 2011), he received the 2012 Leroy P. Steele Prize with Lyons, Aschbacher and Stephen D. Smith. In 1997 he received the Distinguished Teaching Award from the Ohio State University. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Writings

• Daniel Gorenstein, Richard Lyons: The classification of the finite simple groups, American Mathematical Society, Mathematical Surveys and Monographs 40.1 to 40.6, 6 volumes, 1994 to 2005
• Solomon "A brief history of the classification of finite simple groups, BAMS, Bd.38, 2001, Heft3, pdf file ( Conant was given the price)
• Abstract algebra, Belmont / California, Thompson Brooks / Cole 2003