Martin Isaacs

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][4] He currently lives in Berkeley, California and is an occasional participant on MathOverflow.^[4]

Martin Isaacs

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.

References

1. . Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Archived from the original on May 25, 2014. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
2. . University of Wisconsin Madison (Experts Guide). Archived from the original on May 25, 2014. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
3. "Emeritus Professor Proposals". Retrieved May 25, 2014.
4. "User Marty Isaacs". MathOverflow. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
5. "Algebra Page". Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
6. "I. Martin (Irving) Isaacs". Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved April 11, 2016.
7. Isaacs, I. Martin; Navarro, Gabriel (2002). "New refinements of the McKay conjecture for finite groups". Annals of Mathematics. 156: 333–344. arXiv:math/0411171. doi:10.2307/3597192. JSTOR 3597192. S2CID 16357742.
8. "Isaacs-Navarro conjecture". Groupprops, The Group Properties Wiki. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
9. Isaacs, I. Martin (January 1994). Character Theory of Finite Groups (Dover Books on Mathematics). ISBN 978-0486680149.
10. Curtis, Charles W. (1977). "Character theory of finite groups (book review)". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 83 (5): 1005–1007. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1977-14355-3.
11. "Google Search results for Isaacs' character theory book on Math StackExchange". Retrieved May 25, 2014.
12. Berg, Michael (April 24, 2009). "Review of Algebra: A Graduate Course by I. Martin Isaacs". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
13. "Algebra: A Graduate Course". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
14. Isaacs, I. Martin. "Additional Material for the Book (Finite Group Theory)". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
15. Isaacs, I. Martin (January 1, 2008). Finite Group Theory. American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-4344-4. 2011 reprint with corrections
16. Locascio, Andrew (April 20, 2009). "Review of Finite Group Theory by I. Martin Isaacs". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
17. "Isaacs Conference: Conference on Character Theory of Finite Groups". June 3–5, 2009. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
18. "List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved May 25, 2014.