Michio Suzuki

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Michio Suzuki
Born	October 2, 1926(1926-10-02) Chiba
Died	May 31, 1998(1998-05-31) (aged 71) Tokyo
Nationality	Japan
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alma mater	University of Tokyo
Doctoral advisor	Shokichi Iyanaga
Doctoral students	Steven Bauman Randall Holmes Ernest Shult Anne Street
Known for	Suzuki groups

Michio Suzuki (鈴木 通夫, Suzuki Michio, October 2, 1926 – May 31, 1998) was a Japanese mathematician who studied group theory.

Biography

He was a Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1953 to his death. He also had visiting positions at the University of Chicago (1960–61), the Institute for Advanced Study (1962–63, 1968–69, spring 1981), the University of Tokyo (spring 1971), and the University of Padua (1994). Suzuki received his Ph.D in 1952 from the University of Tokyo, despite having moved to the United States the previous year. He was the first to attack the Burnside conjecture, that every finite non-abelian simple group has even order.

A notable achievement was his discovery in 1960 of the Suzuki groups, an infinite family of the only non-abelian simple groups whose order is not divisible by 3. The smallest, of order 29120, was the first simple group of order less than 1 million to be discovered since Dickson's list of 1900.

He classified several classes of simple groups of small rank, including the CIT-groups and C-groups and CA-groups.

There is also a sporadic simple group called the Suzuki group, which he announced in 1968. The Tits ovoid is also referred to as the Suzuki ovoid.

He wrote several textbooks in Japanese.

See also

• Baer-Suzuki theorem
• Bender-Suzuki theorem
• Brauer-Suzuki theorem
• Brauer-Suzuki-Wall theorem

Publications

• M. Suzuki, A new type of simple groups of finite order, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Mathematics, v. 46 (1960), pp. 868–870.
• Suzuki, Michio (1969), "A simple group of order 448,345,497,600", in Brauer, R.; Sah, Chih-han, Theory of Finite Groups (Symposium, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, Mass., 1968), Benjamin, New York, pp. 113–119, MR0241527 
• Suzuki, Michio (1982) [1977], Group theory. I, Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften [Fundamental Principles of Mathematical Sciences], 247, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-540-10915-0, MR648772 
• Suzuki, Michio (1986) [1978], Group theory. II, Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften [Fundamental Principles of Mathematical Sciences], 248, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-0-387-10916-9, MR0501682 

References

• [1] M. Aschbacher, H. Bender, W. Feit, R. Solomon, Michio Suzuki (1926–1998), Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 46 (1999), no. 5, 543–551.

External links

• Michio Suzuki at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.