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I. Martin "Marty" Isaacs is a group theorist and representation theorist and professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He currently lives in Berkeley, California and is an occasional participant on MathOverflow.
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Academic biography
Isaacs completed his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1964 under Richard Brauer. From at least 1979 until 2011, he was a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In May 2011, he retired and became a professor emeritus. The Mathematics Genealogy Project lists him as having had 28 doctoral students.
Research
Isaacs is most famous for coming up with the Isaacs-Navarro conjecture along with Gabriel Navarro, a widely cited generalization of the McKay conjecture.
Books
Isaacs is famous as the author of Character Theory of Finite Groups (first published 1976), one of the most well-known graduate student-level introductory books in character theory and representation theory of finite groups.
Isaacs is also the author of the book Finite Group Theory (published 2008).
Honors
Isaacs is a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He retired in 2011.
In 2009, a conference was held at the Universitat de Valencia in Spain to honor his contributions.
Isaacs is also one of the Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.
Isaacs was a Polya lecturer for the Math Association of America. He received the Benjamin Smith Reynolds award for teaching engineering students at the University of Wisconsin and a UW Madison campus teaching award. He was also the recipient of a Sloan Foundation research award.