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Gene Ward Smith
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Gene Ward Smith (born 1947) is an American mathematician. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990 under the supervision of Ken Ribet. In mathematics he has worked in the areas of Galois theory and Moonshine theory. Mathematics In mathematics, Smith's most notable achievement is the construction of what has been called the Smith generic cyclic polynomial. For any integer n not divisible by eight, this constructs a polynomial which, upon specializing the values, gives all of the cyclic extensions of any given base field with characteristic prime to n. This can then be extended to metacyclic extensions, such as dihedral groups. |
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