Mathematician:Walter Feit

Mathematician

Austrian-born American mathematician who worked in finite group theory and representation theory.

Nationality

Austrian-American

History

• Born: 26 October 1930 in Vienna, Austria
• Died: 29 July 2004 in Branford, Connecticut, USA

Theorems and Definitions

• Feit-Thompson Conjecture (with John Griggs Thompson)
• Feit-Thompson Theorem (with John Griggs Thompson)

Results named for Walter Feit can be found here.

Publications

• 1955: Topics in the Theory of Group Characters
• 1963: Solvability of groups of odd order (Pacific Journal of Mathematics Vol. 13: pp. 775 – 1029) (with John Griggs Thompson)
• 1967: $p$-adic and modular representations of finite groups
• 1970: The Current Situation in the Theory of Finite Simple Groups
• 1990: The construction of Galois groups

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Walter Feit": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive