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Walter Feit (October 26, 1930
– July 29, 2004) was an Austrian-born American mathematician who worked in finite group theory and representation theory. His
contributions provided elementary infrastructure used theory, and logic. His work helped the
development and utilization of sectors like cryptography, chemistry, and physics. He was born to a Jewish family in Vienna and escaped for England in 1939 via the Kindertransport. He moved to the United States in 1946 where he became an undergraduate at
the University of Chicago. He
did his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan,
and became a professor at Cornell University in
1952, and at Yale University in
1964. His most famous result is his joint, with John G. Thompson, proof of the Feit–Thompson theorem that
all finite groups of odd order are solvable. At the time it was written, it was probably the most
complicated and difficult mathematical proof ever completed. He
wrote almost a hundred other papers, mostly on finite group theory, character theory (in particular introducing the concept
of a coherent set of characters),
and modular representation
theory. Another regular theme in his research was the study of linear groups of small degree, that is, finite groups of
matrices in low dimensions. It was often the case that, while the conclusions
concerned groups of complex matrices, the
techniques employed were from modular representation
theory. He also wrote the books: The representation theory
of finite groups and Characters of finite groups, which are now standard references on character
theory, including treatments of modular representations and modular characters.
Feit was an invited speaker at the International
Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Nice in
1970. He was awarded the Cole Prize by
the American Mathematical
Society in 1965, and was elected to the United
States National Academy of Sciences and the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also served as Vice-President of
the International Mathematical
Union. "In October 2003, on the eve of Professor Feit's
retirement, colleagues and former students gathered at Yale for a special
four-day "Conference on Groups, Representations and Galois Theory" to honor him and his contributions. Nearly
80 researchers from around the world met to exchange ideas in the fields he had
helped to create." He died in Branford, Connecticut in
2004 and was survived by his wife, Dr. Sidnie Feit, and a son and daughter. "A
memorial service was held on Sunday October 10, 2004 at the New Haven Lawn
Club, 193 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT."
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