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Lewis Irving Neikirk

b. 1873

An early 20th-century mathematician, he wrote a detailed study of finite groups that grew out of doctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania. His surviving publications suggest a specialist working in abstract algebra at a time when group theory was still taking shape as a modern field.

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Groups of the Order p^m Which Contain Cyclic Subgroups of Order p^(m-3)

Groups of the Order p^m Which Contain Cyclic Subgroups of Order p^(m-3)

by Lewis Irving Neikirk

About the author

Lewis Irving Neikirk, born in 1873, is known from his mathematical monograph Groups of Order p^m Which Contain Cyclic Subgroups of Order p^(m-3). In that work, he described himself as a sometime Harrison Research Fellow in Mathematics and explained that the project began in 1902–1903 as part of the research he presented for the Ph.D. degree at the University of Pennsylvania.

The book was completed in 1905 and focuses on classifying certain finite groups, placing him among the American mathematicians contributing to the development of group theory in the early 1900s. The preface also shows his connection to professors George H. Hallett and Edwin S. Crawley, who supported the work.

Little else could be confirmed here about his wider life or career, so the clearest picture is of a scholar remembered primarily through this substantial research contribution.