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Ruth Moufang
Ruth Moufang (1905–1977) was a German mathematician whose 1930s work on projective planes and non-associative algebra gave her name to the Moufang plane, Moufang loop, and Moufang identities.
Sarah B. Hart
Sarah B. Hart is a British mathematician in group theory, formerly Professor at Birkbeck and Gresham Professor of Geometry from 2020 to 2024, the first woman in that 1597 chair.
Sergei Adian
Sergei Adian, fully Sergei Ivanovich Adian, was a Soviet and Russian group theorist who solved the bounded Burnside problem negatively with Pyotr Novikov in 1968.
Ulrich Dempwolff
Ulrich Dempwolff (born 1945 in Saalfeld) is a German mathematician who worked on finite groups, finite geometries, and combinatorics, and was professor at Kaiserslautern from 1976 to 2010.
Vladimir Platonov
Vladimir Petrovich Platonov (born 1939) is a Russian mathematician known for strong approximation, reduced K-theory, and the congruence subgroup problem, and winner of the 1978 Lenin Prize.
Wilhelm Magnus
Wilhelm Magnus (1907–1990) was a German-born American mathematician who created the theory of one-relator groups, proved the Freiheitssatz and the decidability of their word problem, and coauthored the standard textbook Combinatorial group theory.