Person: Brauer (2), Richard Dagobert

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Richard Brauer became interested in work on group characters. He formulated a method to classify all finite simple groups and spent the rest of his life working on this problem.

Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):

Born 10 February 1901, Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany. Died 17 April 1977, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA.

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Algebra, Group Theory, Origin Germany


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  1. O’Connor, John J; Robertson, Edmund F: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive