Martin Isaacs Explained

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] 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 1969 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 29 doctoral students.[6]

Research

Isaacs is most famous for formulating 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 in 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 Algebra: A Graduate Course (first published in 1994; republished in 2009),[12] which received highly positive reviews.[13] Additionally, he is the author of Finite Group Theory (published in 2008).[14] [15] [16]

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.[17]

Isaacs is also a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[18]

Isaacs was a Pólya lecturer for the Mathematical 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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Emeritus Faculty and Staff Directory. Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison. May 25, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140525232849/http://www.math.wisc.edu/emeritus-faculty-and-staff-directory. May 25, 2014. dead.
  2. Web site: I. Martin Isaacs. University of Wisconsin Madison (Experts Guide). May 25, 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140525200429/http://experts.news.wisc.edu/experts/869. May 25, 2014.
  3. Web site: Emeritus Professor Proposals. May 25, 2014.
  4. Web site: User Marty Isaacs. MathOverflow. May 25, 2014.
  5. Web site: Algebra Page. Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison. May 25, 2014.
  6. Web site: I. Martin (Irving) Isaacs. Mathematics Genealogy Project. April 11, 2016.
  7. New refinements of the McKay conjecture for finite groups. Isaacs. I. Martin. Navarro. Gabriel. Annals of Mathematics. 156. 333–344. 2002. 10.2307/3597192. 3597192. math/0411171. 16357742.
  8. Web site: Isaacs-Navarro conjecture. Groupprops, The Group Properties Wiki. May 25, 2014.
  9. Book: Isaacs, I. Martin. Character Theory of Finite Groups (Dover Books on Mathematics). 978-0486680149. January 1994.
  10. Character theory of finite groups (book review). Curtis. Charles W.. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 83. 5. 1977. 1005–1007. 10.1090/s0002-9904-1977-14355-3. free.
  11. Web site: Google Search results for Isaacs' character theory book on Math StackExchange. May 25, 2014.
  12. Web site: Berg, Michael. April 24, 2009. Review of Algebra: A Graduate Course by I. Martin Isaacs. MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
  13. Web site: Algebra: A Graduate Course . American Mathematical Society. 2018-03-06.
  14. Web site: Additional Material for the Book (Finite Group Theory). Isaacs. I. Martin. American Mathematical Society. May 25, 2014.
  15. Book: Isaacs, I. Martin. Finite Group Theory. 978-0-8218-4344-4. American Mathematical Society. January 1, 2008. 2011 reprint with corrections
  16. Web site: Locascio, Andrew. Review of Finite Group Theory by I. Martin Isaacs. April 20, 2009. MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
  17. Web site: Isaacs Conference: Conference on Character Theory of Finite Groups. June 3–5, 2009. May 25, 2014.
  18. Web site: List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. American Mathematical Society. May 25, 2014.

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