Mathematician:Charles Coffin Sims
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Mathematician
American mathematician active in the field of group theory.
With Donald Gordon Higman, discovered the Higman-Sims group.
Developed software leading up to the discovery of the Lyons group (also known as Lyons-Sims group) and O'Nan group (also known as O'Nan-Sims group).
Nationality
American
History
- Born: 14 April 1937 in Elkhart, Indiana, USA
- Died: 23 October 2017 in St Petersburg, Florida, USA
Theorems and Definitions
- Higman-Sims Group (with Donald Gordon Higman)
- Schreier-Sims Algorithm (with Otto Schreier)
- O'Nan-Sims Group (with Michael Ernest O'Nan)
- Lyons-Sims Group (with Richard Neil Lyons)
Publications
- 1968: A simple group of order 44,352,000 (Math. Z. Vol. 105, no. 2: pp. 110 – 113) (with Donald G. Higman)
- 1973: The existence and uniqueness of Lyons' group