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Michael Aschbacher

1944 - Today

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Michael George Aschbacher (born April 8, 1944) is an American mathematician best known for his work on finite groups. He was a leading figure in the completion of the classification of finite simple groups in the 1970s and 1980s. It later turned out that the classification was incomplete, because the case of quasithin groups had not been finished. This gap was fixed by Aschbacher and Stephen D. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Aschbacher has received more than 65,638 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Michael Aschbacher is the 861st most popular mathematician (down from 843rd in 2019), the 8,902nd most popular biography from United States (up from 10,329th in 2019) and the 68th most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Michael Aschbacher ranks 861 out of 1,004. Before him are Juliusz Schauder, Yuri Linnik, Evelyn Boyd Granville, Richard Taylor, Hans Rademacher, and Roger Apéry. After him are Richard Brauer, Jørgen Pedersen Gram, William Shanks, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, Francesco Severi, and Cécile DeWitt-Morette.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Michael Aschbacher ranks 589. Before him are Erich Hamann, Booker T. Jones, Gilles Berolatti, Graham Taylor, Angus King, and Jon E. Ahlquist. After him are Didier Couécou, Simon Blackburn, Clarence White, Dave Edmunds, Chris Hillman, and Idriz Hošić.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Michael Aschbacher ranks 8,902 out of 20,380. Before him are Diana Der Hovanessian (1934), Frank Weston Benson (1862), Sasha Mitchell (1967), Clarence Pinkston (1900), Camilla Wicks (1928), and Lana Parrilla (1977). After him are Shelley Berman (1925), Myles Kennedy (1969), Minta Durfee (1889), Patti Hansen (1956), Harold Budd (1936), and Les Baxter (1922).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Michael Aschbacher ranks 68. Before him are Curtis T. McMullen (1958), Tom M. Apostol (1923), Marshall Harvey Stone (1903), Marston Morse (1892), Richard Garfield (1963), and Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924). After him are Barry Mazur (1937), Norman Johnson (1930), Cleve Moler (1939), Robin Hartshorne (1938), Clifford Truesdell (1919), and Adele Goldstine (1920).

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