Ronald "Ron“ Solomon is an American mathematician specializing in the theory of finite groups.
Education
Solomon studied as an undergraduate at Queens College and received a Doctor of Philosophy in 1971 at Yale University under Walter Feit with a thesis entitled Finite Groups with Sylow 2-Subgroups of the Type of the Alternating Group on Twelve Letters.
Career
In 1972 he began his participation in the classification program for finite simple groups, after hearing a lecture by Daniel Gorenstein. He was for two years an instructor at the University of Chicago and the academic year 1974-1975 at Rutgers University, before he became a professor at Ohio State University, where he has remained. With Gorenstein and Richard Lyons he wrote a series of six volumes on the classification program for finite simple groups in the context of a project for the examination of the proof.