Frank Grosshans

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Frank Grosshans is an American mathematician who works in invariant theory, where he is known for the discovery of Grosshans subgroups and .[1] He is a professor of mathematics at West Chester University, Pennsylvania.[2] Grosshans has been an invited speaker at meetings of the Mathematical Association of America.[3]

He received his B.S. from the University of Illinois and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago.[2] He taught at University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University before joining the West Chester University.

Selected books and publications[]

  • Goto, Morikuni; Grosshans, Frank D. (1978). Semisimple Lie algebras. New York: M. Dekker. ISBN 0-8247-6744-6.[4]
  • Grosshans, Frank D.; Rota, Gian-Carlo; Stein, Joel A. (1987). Invariant theory and superalgebras. Providence, R.I.: Published for the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences by the American Mathematical Society. ISBN 0-8218-0719-6.
  • Grosshans, Frank D. (1977). Algebraic Homogeneous Spaces and Invariant Theory (Lecture Notes in Mathematics). Springer. ISBN 3-540-63628-5.
  • Grosshans, G. D. (1986). "Hilbert's fourteenth problem for non-reductive groups". Mathematische Zeitschrift. 193: 95–144. doi:10.1007/BF01163357. S2CID 120450138.
  • Grosshans, F. D. (1987). Constructing invariant polynomials via Tschirnhaus transformations. Lecture Notes in Mathematics. 1278. pp. 95–97. doi:10.1007/BFb0078809. ISBN 978-3-540-18360-0.
  • Grosshans, F. D. (1 June 1981). "Rigid Motions of Conics: an Introduction to Invariant Theory". The American Mathematical Monthly. The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 88, No. 6. 88 (6): 407–413. doi:10.2307/2321823. ISSN 0002-9890. JSTOR 2321823.
  • Gleeson, R., Grosshans, F. D., Hirsch, M. J., Williams, R. M. (2003) "Algorithms for the Recognition of 2D Images of m Points and n Lines in 3D". Image and Vision Computing. 21(6): 497–504. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0262-8856(03)00029-5

References[]

  1. ^ The Mathematical Association of America website, Talk Abstract, "The Fundamental Theorem of Symmetric Functions: then and now," http://math.moravian.edu/~epadel/archives/2009_03_Gettysburg/abstracts/index.html (last accessed June 17, 2010)
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b West Chester University, Department of Mathematics website, http://www.wcupa.edu/Academics/SCH_CAS.MAT/faculty/fgrosshans.html Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine (last accessed June 17, 2010)
  3. ^ MAA EPaDel Spring Meeting at Gettysburg College conferences
  4. ^ Humphreys, James E. (1979). "Review of Semisimple Lie Algebras by M. Goto and F.D. Grosshans" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 1: 515–518. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1979-14600-7.

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