Martin Isaacs

Irving Martin Isaacs (April 14, 1940 – February 17, 2025) was an American group theorist and representation theorist. He was a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Biography Isaacs was born in the Bronx, in New York City, on April 14, 1940. He received a BS from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1960.

Isaacs went on to Harvard University for graduate study. He received a master's degree in 1961, and was titled Finite -solvable linear groups. After a few years at the University of Chicago as an instructor and visiting assistant professor, Isaacs moved to the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1969. Near the end of his life, he endowed a prize for "Excellence in Mathematical Writing," first awarded in 2025.

Work Isaacs is known as the author of graduate-level textbooks on character theory and group theory.

Personal life Isaacs was seriously injured in an automobile accident in France in 1964, shortly after receiving his PhD. The accident left him scarred and disabled. Following the conference, a festschrift was published by the American Mathematical Society.

Isaacs was the recipient of a Sloan Foundation research award in 1971.

Isaacs was a Pólya lecturer for the Mathematical Association of America between 2003 and 2005. (reprinted by the American Mathematical Society in 2009 ) (reprinted by the American Mathematical Society in 2009 ) 2011 reprint with corrections