Martin Isaacs

Short description: American mathematician

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]

## Contents

* 1 Academic biography
* 2 Research
* 3 Books
* 4 Honors
* 5 References

## 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 28 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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Emeritus Faculty and Staff Directory". Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison. http://www.math.wisc.edu/emeritus-faculty-and-staff-directory. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "I. Martin Isaacs". University of Wisconsin Madison (Experts Guide). Archived from the original on May 25, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140525200429/http://experts.news.wisc.edu/experts/869. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Emeritus Professor Proposals". http://www.math.wisc.edu/~passman/emeritus.html. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "User Marty Isaacs". MathOverflow. https://mathoverflow.net/users/9694/marty-isaacs. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
5. ↑ "Algebra Page". Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison. http://www.math.wisc.edu/~ono/algebra.html. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "I. Martin (Irving) Isaacs". Mathematics Genealogy Project. http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=9224. 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. doi:10.2307/3597192.
8. ↑ "Isaacs-Navarro conjecture". Groupprops, The Group Properties Wiki. http://groupprops.subwiki.org/wiki/Isaacs-Navarro_conjecture. 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. http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bams/1183539464.
11. ↑ "Google Search results for Isaacs' character theory book on Math StackExchange". https://www.google.com/search?q=isaacs+character+theory+site:math.stackexchange.com. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
12. ↑ Berg, Michael (April 24, 2009). "Review of Algebra: A Graduate Course by I. Martin Isaacs". https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/algebra-a-graduate-course.
13. ↑ "Algebra: A Graduate Course". American Mathematical Society. https://bookstore.ams.org/gsm-100/.
14. ↑ Isaacs, I. Martin. "Additional Material for the Book (Finite Group Theory)". American Mathematical Society. http://www.ams.org/publications/authors/books/postpub/gsm-92. 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". https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/finite-group-theory.
17. ↑ "Isaacs Conference: Conference on Character Theory of Finite Groups". June 3–5, 2009. http://www.uv.es/isaacs09/. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
18. ↑ "List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". American Mathematical Society. http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list. Retrieved May 25, 2014.

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