Derek J. S. Robinson Explained

Derek John Scott Robinson (born 25 September 1938 in Montrose, Scotland)^[1] is a British mathematician, specialising in group theory and homological algebra.^[2]

Education and career

Robinson graduated in 1960 with a bachelor's degree from the University of Edinburgh and in 1963 with a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge.^[2] His Ph.D. thesis Theory of Subnormal Subgroups was supervised by Philip Hall. As a postdoc, Robinson was from 1963 to 1965 an instructor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. From 1965 to 1968 he was a lecturer at Queen Mary College (now named Queen Mary University of London). At the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign he was an assistant professor from 1968 to 1969, an associate professor from 1969 to 1974, and a full professor from 1974 to 2007, when he retired as professor emeritus. He held visiting appointments in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and Singapore.^[2]

Robinson's 1964 paper on T-groups^[3] has over 250 citations. He was awarded in 1970 the Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize and received in 1979 a Humboldt Prize.^[2]

Books

• with S. Cruz Rambaud, J. García Pérez, and R.A. Nehmer: Algebraic models for accounting systems, World Scientific, Singapore, 2010. ^[4]
• A course in linear algebra with applications, World Scientific, 1991 ; 2nd edition 2006
• An introduction to abstract algebra, De Gruyter 2003 ; Abstract algebra: an introduction with applications, 3rd edition 2022^[5]
• with John C. Lennox: Theory of infinite soluble groups, Clarendon Press, Oxford 2004
• A course in the theory of groups, Springer Verlag, 1982, 2nd edition 1996
• Finiteness conditions and generalized soluble groups, Parts I & II, Springer Verlag 1972^[6]
• Infinite soluble and nilpotent groups, London 1968
• as editor with Phillip Griffith: The mathematical legacy of Reinhold Baer: a collection of articles in honor of the centenary of the birth of Reinhold Baer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2004

References

1. biographical information from American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004
2. Web site: Derek J. S. Robinson Department of Mathematics. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. (with comprehensive publication list)
3. Robinson, Derek JS. Groups in which normality is a transitive relation. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 10. 1. 21–38. 1964. 10.1017/S0305004100037403. 1964PCPS...60...21R . 119707269 .
4. Web site: Schulte, Tom. May 30, 2011. Review of Algebraic models for accounting systems. MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
5. Web site: Linowitz, Benjamin. Review of Abstract algebra: an introduction with applications, 3rd edition, by Derek J. S. Robinson. May 24, 2022. MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of American.
6. Review of Finiteness Conditions and Generalized Soluble Groups Parts 1 and 2 by Derek J. S. Robinson. Roseblade, J. E.. Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society. 7. 2. July 1975. 217–218. 10.1112/blms/7.2.217.