Walter Feit (October 26, 1930 - July 29, 2004) was a mathematician who worked in finite group theory and representation theory. October 26 is the 299th day of the year (300th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 66 days remaining. ... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... July 29 is the 210th day (211th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 155 days remaining. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A mathematician is a person whose area of study and research is mathematics. ... In mathematics, a finite group is a group which has finitely many elements. ... In mathematics Representation theory is the name given to the study of standard representations of abstract mathematical structures. ...

He was born in Vienna and left for England in 1939; and 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 in 1952, and at Yale in 1964. This article is about the city and federal state in Austria. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Religion... The University of Chicago is a private co-educational university located in Chicago, Illinois. ... The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor is a public coeducational university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. ... Cornell is the name of some places in the United States of America. ... This article is about the institution of higher learning in the United States. ...

His most famous result is his joint 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 proof ever completed. He wrote almost a hundred other papers, mostly on finite group theory and modular character theory.

He also wrote the books The representation theory of finite groups ISBN 0-444-86155-6 and Characters of finite groups ASIN B0007DX926, which are now standard references on modular character theory.

He was awarded the Cole Prize by the American Mathematical Society and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and was Vice-President of the International Mathematical Union. There are two Cole Prizes awarded by the American Mathematical Society. ... The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and education, which it does with various publications and conferences as well as annual monetary awards to mathematicians. ... The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in the United States is a government-established corporation supporting scientific research. ... The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an organization dedicated to scholarship and the advancement of learning, particularly in areas of political science. ...

External links

• Yale obituary (http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/04-08-30-01.all.html)
• Students of Walter Feit (http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=5099)