Derek John Scott Robinson

Derek John Scott Robinson (born 25 September 1938 in Montrose, Scotland) is a British mathematician, specialising in group theory and homological algebra.

Education and career Robinson graduated in 1960 with a bachelor's degree from the University of Edinburgh and in 1963 with a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. As a postdoc, Robinson was from 1963 to 1965 an instructor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. From 1965 to 1968 he was a lecturer at Queen Mary College (now named Queen Mary University of London). At the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign he was an assistant professor from 1968 to 1969, an associate professor from 1969 to 1974, and a full professor from 1974 to 2007, when he retired as professor emeritus. He held visiting appointments in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and Singapore. has over 250 citations. He was awarded in 1970 the Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize and received in 1979 a Humboldt Prize. A course in linear algebra with applications, World Scientific, 1991 ; 2nd edition 2006 An introduction to abstract algebra, De Gruyter 2003 ; Abstract algebra: an introduction with applications, 3rd edition 2022 with John C. Lennox: Theory of infinite soluble groups, Clarendon Press, Oxford 2004 A course in the theory of groups, Springer Verlag, 1982, 2nd edition 1996 Finiteness conditions and generalized soluble groups, Parts I & II, Springer Verlag 1972 Infinite soluble and nilpotent groups, London 1968 as editor with Phillip Griffith: The mathematical legacy of Reinhold Baer: a collection of articles in honor of the centenary of the birth of Reinhold Baer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2004