2012 Steele Prizes

Abstract

The 2012 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition is awarded to Michael Aschbacher, Richard Lyons, Steve Smith, and Ronald Solomon for their work, The Classification of Finite Simple Groups: Groups of Characteristic 2 Type, Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, 172, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2011. In this paper, the authors, who have done foundational work in the classification of finite simple groups, offer to the general mathematical public an articulate and readable exposition of the classification of characteristic 2 type groups.

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