John Thompson - American mathematician, finite group researcher, professor of mathematical sciences in Gainesville (Florida). Winner of many awards for his contribution to the development of not only mathematics, but science as a whole.
early years
John Griggs Thompson was born on October 13, 1932 into an ordinary family in the small American city of Ottawa. His childhood and early youth passed there.
Education
After leaving school, John entered Yale University, and at 23, Thompson successfully completed it, becoming a bachelor.
After that, he entered the University of Chicago to conduct various scientific research and after 4 years, in 1959, defended his doctoral dissertation, which in fact proved the Frobenius hypothesis, which remained unresolved for 60 years. John's mentor was the famous mathematician and teacher Saunders MacLane.
Since defending Thompson's dissertation, group theory has come to the fore as a mathematical topic that has attracted the most attention and that developed most rapidly. The reason was that, suddenly, progress began on one of the main problems of the theory of finite groups, namely the classification of finite simple groups.
Further life, career as a teacher
Thompson later became an assistant at Harvard University, which he was until 1962, after which John was accepted as a professor of mathematical sciences.
In 1970, he became a professor at a prestigious British university. For 23 years, Thompson worked in Cambridge, he again moved to the United States, where he worked as a professor at a prestigious university in Florida.
Scientific achievements
Thompson's contribution to mathematics is undeniable. Thanks to his work, the rapid development of the theory of finite groups and their classification began.
Personal life
Former and current colleagues and close friends of John Thompson, the great mathematician of our time, noted that Thompson is not afraid of difficulties, on the contrary, overcoming them, he gives new ideas that have a great influence on the development of mathematics.
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (United States and Italy), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Literature, and a member of the Royal Society of London.
