Frank Grosshans

Frank Grosshans is an American mathematician who works in invariant theory, where he is known for the discovery of Grosshans subgroups and Grosshans graded coefficients.^[1] He is a professor of mathematics at West Chester University, Pennsylvania.^[2] Grosshans has been an invited speaker at meetings of the Mathematical Association of America.^[3]

He received his B.S. from the University of Illinois and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago.^[2] He taught at University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University before joining the West Chester University.

Selected books and publications

• Goto, Morikuni; Grosshans, Frank D. (1978). Semisimple Lie algebras. New York: M. Dekker. ISBN 0-8247-6744-6.^[4]
• Grosshans, Frank D.; Rota, Gian-Carlo; Stein, Joel A. (1987). Invariant theory and superalgebras. Providence, R.I.: Published for the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences by the American Mathematical Society. ISBN 0-8218-0719-6.
• Grosshans, Frank D. (1977). Algebraic Homogeneous Spaces and Invariant Theory (Lecture Notes in Mathematics). Springer. ISBN 3-540-63628-5.
• Grosshans, G. D. (1986). "Hilbert's fourteenth problem for non-reductive groups". Mathematische Zeitschrift. 193: 95–144. doi:10.1007/BF01163357.
• Grosshans, F. D. (1987). "Constructing invariant polynomials via tschirnhaus transformations". Constructing invariant polynomials via Tschirnhaus transformations. Lecture Notes in Mathematics. 1278. pp. 95–97. doi:10.1007/BFb0078809. ISBN 978-3-540-18360-0.
• Grosshans, F. D. (1 June 1981). "Rigid Motions of Conics: an Introduction to Invariant Theory". The American Mathematical Monthly. The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 88, No. 6. 88 (6): 407–413. doi:10.2307/2321823. ISSN 0002-9890. JSTOR 2321823.

References

1. The Mathematical Association of America website, Talk Abstract, "The Fundamental Theorem of Symmetric Functions: then and now," http://math.moravian.edu/~epadel/archives/2009_03_Gettysburg/abstracts/index.html (last accessed June 17, 2010)
2. West Chester University, Department of Mathematics website, http://www.wcupa.edu/Academics/SCH_CAS.MAT/faculty/fgrosshans.html (last accessed June 17, 2010)
3. MAA EPaDel Spring Meeting at Gettysburg College conferences
4. Humphreys, James E. (1979). "Review of Semisimple Lie Algebras by M. Goto and F.D. Grosshans" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 1: 515–518. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1979-14600-7.

External links

• Frank Grosshans. West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Accessed 30 March 2009.
• Frank Grosshans at the Mathematics Genealogy Project