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Higman is a surname.
Notable people with the
surname include:
Donald G.
Higman (1928–2006),
American mathematician Graham Higman (1917–2008),
British mathematician...
- In mathematics, the
Higman group,
introduced by
Graham Higman (1951), was the
first example of an
infinite finitely presented group with no nontrivial...
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Barry William Higman (born 30
September 1943) is a
retired Australian historian of
Caribbean studies who
primarily taught at the
University of the West...
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Howard Higman (April 25, 1915 –
November 22, 1995) was an
American sociologist notable as the
founder of the
Conference on
World Affairs in 1948. "
Higman, Howard"...
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Higman's theorem may
refer to: Hall–
Higman theorem in
group theory,
proved in 1956 by
Philip Hall and
Graham Higman Higman's embedding theorem in group...
- In the area of
modern algebra known as
group theory, the
Higman–Sims
group HS is a
sporadic simple group of
order 44,352,000 = 29 · 32 · 53 · 7 · 11...
- In
mathematical graph theory, the
Higman–Sims
graph is a 22-regular
undirected graph with 100
vertices and 1100 edges. It is the
unique strongly regular...
- John
Philips Higman FRS (1793, Kingsbridge,
Devonshire – 7
August 1855,
Cambridge Terrace, Hyde Park, London) was an
Anglican rector and mathematician...
- In mathematics,
Higman's lemma states that the set Σ ∗ {\displaystyle \Sigma ^{*}} of
finite sequences over a
finite alphabet Σ {\displaystyle \Sigma }...
- In
mathematical group theory, the Hall–
Higman theorem, due to
Philip Hall and
Graham Higman (1956, Theorem B),
describes the
possibilities for the minimal...
