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Irving Adler
1913–2012
American mathematician
The importance of group theory was emphasized very recently when some physicists using group theory predicted the existence of a particle that had never been observed before, and described the properties it should have. Later experiments proved that this particle really exists and has those properties.
TOPICS: group theory, algebra, physics