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Walter Feit

Mathematics

#715

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#1306

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#312

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Group Theory

#11

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#15

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#4

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Measure Theory

#2036

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#2469

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#603

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According to Wikipedia, Walter Feit was an Austrian-born American mathematician who worked in finite group theory and representation theory. His contributions provided elementary infrastructure used in algebra, geometry, topology, number theory, and logic. His work helped the development and utilization of sectors like cryptography, chemistry, and physics.

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Walter Feit's Published Works

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The representation theory of finite groups (1982) (549)
Finite Simple Groups (1983) (469)
The nonexistence of certain generalized polygons (1964) (370)
SOLVABILITY OF GROUPS OF ODD ORDER (2012) (315)
Characters of finite groups (1965) (314)
North-Holland Mathematical Library (2005) (130)
THE CURRENT SITUATION IN THE THEORY OF FINITE SIMPLE GROUPS (1970) (130)
On finite rational groups and related topics (1989) (129)
Recent Developments in the Inverse Galois Problem (1995) (89)
ON THE NUMBER OF IRREDUCIBLE CHARACTERS OF FINITE GROUPS IN A GIVEN BLOCK. (1959) (87)
Finite Groups which Contain a Selfcentralizing Subgroup of Order 3 (1962) (85)
Some consequences of the classification of finite simple groups (1980) (83)
On large Zsigmondy primes (1988) (76)
On a class of doubly transitive permutation groups (1960) (50)
An Analogue of Jordan's Theorem in Characteristic p (1966) (50)
The computations of some Schur indices (1983) (49)
Pairs of commuting matrices over a finite field (1960) (49)
GROUPS WHICH HAVE A FAITHFUL REPRESENTATION OF DEGREE LESS THAN .p 1=2/ (1961) (48)
On Integral Representations of Finite Groups (1974) (41)
Groups which have a faithful representation of degree less than $p-1$ (1964) (41)
Groups with a Cyclic Sylow Subgroup (1966) (41)
Projective Representations of Minimum Degree of Group Extensions (1978) (40)
Possible Brauer trees (1984) (39)
On finite linear groups (1967) (38)
Some lattices over Q(√−3)☆ (1978) (38)
On Symmetric Balanced Incomplete Block Designs with Doubly Transitive Automorphism Groups (1973) (37)
A SOLVABILITY CRITERION FOR FINITE GROUPS AND SOME CONSEQUENCES. (1962) (30)
An interval in the subgroup lattice of a finite group which is isomorphic toM7 (1983) (28)
Automorphisms of symmetric balanced incomplete block designs (1970) (28)
Finite groups in which the centralizer of any non-identity element is nilpotent (1960) (28)
A Remark about Permutations (1975) (27)
ON FINITE LINEAR GROUPS IN DIMENSION AT MOST 10 (1976) (26)
Ã5 and Ã7 are Galois groups over number fields (1986) (26)
Semisimplicity and Tensor Products of Group Representations: Converse Theorems (1997) (26)
Some Diophantine equations of the form x^2 - py^2 = z (2000) (23)
A self-dual even (96, 48, 16) code (Corresp.) (1974) (23)
On the Structure of Frobenius Groups (1957) (23)
Codes over GF ( 4 ) and Complex Lattices (1978) (20)
A CHARACTERIZATION OF THE SIMPLE GROUPS SL(2, 2a).* (1960) (20)
The degree formula for the skew-representations of the symmetric group (1953) (18)
Finite projective planes and a question about primes (1990) (18)
On the projective characters in characteristic 2 of the groups Suz(2m) and Sp4(2n) (1980) (16)
Finite linear groups and theorems of Minkowski and Schur (1997) (14)
Examples of some Q-admissible groups (1987) (13)
Some finite groups with nontrivial centers which are Galois groups (1989) (12)
Some Properties of Characters of Finite Groups (1982) (12)
SL(2,11) is Q-admissible (2002) (11)
On the projective characters in characteristic 2 of the groups SL3(2m) and SU3(2m) (1980) (11)
The K-admissibility of SL(2, 5) (1990) (11)
A theorem on factorizable groups (1960) (10)
Finite Linear Groups, the Commodore 64, Euler and Sylvester (1986) (10)
Review: Daniel Gorenstein, Finite simple groups, an introduction to their classification (1983) (10)
Blocks with cyclic defect groups for some sporadic groups (1986) (8)
Schur indices of characters of groups related to finite sporadic simple groups (1996) (7)
PSL 2 (11) is Admissible for all Number Fields (2004) (7)
On finite linear groups II (1974) (7)
On a conjecture of Frobenius (1956) (7)
The Q-admissibility of 2A6 and 2A7 (1993) (7)
Review: G. Hiss and K. Lux, Brauer trees of sporadic groups (1991) (7)
Integral representations of Weyl groups rationally equivalent to the reflection representation (1998) (6)
Some integral representations of complex reflection groups (2003) (6)
Richard D. Brauer (1979) (5)
Divisibility of projective modules of finite groups (1976) (5)
TheK-admissibility of 2A6 and 2A7 (1993) (4)
A Criterion for a Polynomial to Factor Completely over the Integers (1978) (4)
A Group-Theoretic Proof of Wilson's Theorem (1958) (4)
On the Work of Efim Zelmanov (1995) (4)
On certain rational quadratic forms (1975) (2)
ON p-REGULAR EXTENSIONS OF LOCAL FIELDS' (1959) (2)
Correction: A Characterization of the Simple Groups SL(2,2 a ) (1962) (1)
Complex linear groups of degree less than 212 p — 3 (1978) (1)
The representation theory of finite groups / Walter Feit (1982) (1)
A Method for Computing Symmetric and Related Polynomials (2000) (1)
Journal of Algebra Algebra Editor-in-chief: Graham Higman Contents of Volume 70 (0)
Lambda and Psi Operations on Green Rings (2003) (0)
On the Lattice of all Subgroups of a Finite Noncyclic Simple Group (2001) (0)
Serre E-Mail File (2005) (0)
THE WORK OF EFIM ZELMANOV (1997) (0)
A Generalization of the Littlewood-Richardson Rule and the Robinson-Schensted-Knuth (2003) (0)
DIMENSION EXPANDERS ALEXANDER LUBOTZKY AND EFIM ZELMANOV (2008) (0)
Michio Suzuki (1926–1998), Volume 46, Number 5 (1999) (0)
Thompson-Feit Emails (2005) (0)
ON ^-REGULAR EXTENSIONS OF LOCAL FIELDS1 (2010) (0)
Study of algrebras with radical : quarterly report (1954) (0)
Dedicated to Professor Jacques Tits on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday (1990) (0)
Topics in the theory of group characters by Walter Feit. (1954) (0)
Problems Dedicated to Emory P. Starke: S32-S33 (1980) (0)
Finite Groups with a Standard Subgroup of Type U@“), n > 1 (2003) (0)
On Finite Groups which Contain a Frobenius Subgroup* (2003) (0)
ON A CONJECTURE OF FROBENIUS1 (2010) (0)
Some Galois groups over number fields (1989) (0)
On Feit’s Examples o in Subgroup La (2003) (0)
Note A Remark about Permutations (1975) (0)
RANKING OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS (1953) (0)

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