{"id":17,"date":"2020-11-11T14:25:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T19:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lsf\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2025-12-19T15:03:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:03:43","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/rfoote\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-atomic-blocks-ab-columns ab-layout-columns-2 ab-2-col-equal alignfull\" style=\"padding-left:20px\"><div class=\"ab-layout-column-wrap ab-block-layout-column-gap-4 ab-is-responsive-column\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-atomic-blocks-ab-column ab-block-layout-column ab-is-vertically-aligned-top\"><div class=\"ab-block-layout-column-inner\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Contact Information:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Email:<\/strong>   foote &#8220;at sign&#8221;  math &#8220;dot&#8221;  uvm  &#8220;dot&#8221;  edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Selected Papers:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>1.&nbsp; <em>A Characterization of Finite Groups Containing a Strongly Closed 2-subgroup,<\/em><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Communications in Algebra, 25(1997), 593&#8211;606. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cems.uvm.edu\/~rfoote\/strcl.pdf\">pdf file<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cems.uvm.edu\/~rfoote\/strcl.dvi\">dvi file<\/a> )<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2.&nbsp; <em>Sylow 2-subgroups of Galois Groups Arising as Minimal Counterexamples to Artin&#8217;s<\/em> <em>Conjecture,<\/em><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Communications in Algebra, 25(1997), 607&#8211;616. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cems.uvm.edu\/~rfoote\/sylow2ar.pdf\">pdf file<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cems.uvm.edu\/~rfoote\/syl2art.dvi\">dvi file<\/a> )<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3.&nbsp;<em> A Wreath Product Group Approach to Signal and Image Processing:<\/em> <em>Part I &#8212; Multiresolution Analysis,<\/em><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (with G. Mirchandani, D. Rockmore, D. Healy, and T. Olson),<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 48, No. 1, Jan. 2000, pp. 102&#8211;132. ( <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cems.uvm.edu\/~rfoote\/wp.pdf\">pdf file<\/a>&nbsp; or&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cems.uvm.edu\/~rfoote\/wp.ps\">postscript file<\/a> )<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4.&nbsp; <em>A Wreath Product Group Approach to Signal and Image Processing:<\/em> <em>Part II &#8212; Convolution, Correlation and Applications,<\/em><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (with G. Mirchandani, D. Rockmore, D. Healy, and T. Olson),&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 48, No. 3, March 2000, pp. 749&#8211;767. ( <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cems.uvm.edu\/~rfoote\/part2.pdf\">pdf file<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cems.uvm.edu\/~rfoote\/gagan.ps\">postscript file<\/a> )<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5.&nbsp; <em>Homogeneously Generated Groups<\/em>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (with Lenny Jones),&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Journal of Group Theory, 6(2003), pp. 321&#8211;330. ( <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cems.uvm.edu\/~rfoote\/homogen.pdf\">pdf file<\/a> or&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cems.uvm.edu\/~rfoote\/homogen.dvi\">dvi file<\/a> )<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6.&nbsp; <em>An Algebraic Approach to Multiresolution Analysis,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., Vol 357, No. 12, March 2005,&nbsp; pp. 5031&#8211;5050. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cems.uvm.edu\/~rfoote\/multires.pdf\">pfd file<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cems.uvm.edu\/~rfoote\/multires.dvi\">dvi file<\/a>)<strong><br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7.&nbsp; <em>Strongly Closed Subgroups of Finite Groups<\/em>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (with Ram\u00f3n J. Flores),&nbsp; <br>       Advances in Mathematics, 222(2009), 453&#8211;484. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cems.uvm.edu\/~rfoote\/Flores-Foote%20web%20posted%20version.pdf\">pdf file<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cems.uvm.edu\/~rfoote\/Flores-Foote%20web%20posted%20version.dvi\">dvi file<\/a>)<br><br>7a.&nbsp; A Corollary to<em> Strongly Closed Subgroups of Finite Groups<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cems.uvm.edu\/~rfoote\/burnside-generalization.pdf\">pdf file<\/a>)<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8.&nbsp; <em>The Cellular Structure of the Classifying Spaces of Finite Groups<\/em>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (with Ram\u00f3n J. Flores),&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Israel Journal of Mathematics, 184(2011), 129&#8211;156. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cems.uvm.edu\/~rfoote\/Flores-Foote_IJM-184-2011.pdf\">pdf file<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cems.uvm.edu\/~rfoote\/Flores-Foote_IJM-184-2011.dvi\">dvi file<\/a>)<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9.&nbsp; <em>The Perfect Order Subset Conjecture for Simple Groups<\/em>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (with Benjamin Reist),&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Journal of Algebra, 391(2013), 1&#8211;21. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cems.uvm.edu\/~rfoote\/Foote-Reist%20journal%20offprint.pdf\">pdf file<\/a>)<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10. <em>Characterizations of Finite Groups with p-Fusion of Squarefree Type<\/em>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (with Matthew Welz),<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society, July 2014, 8 pages.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cems.uvm.edu\/~rfoote\/foote-welz.pdf\">(pdf file)<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11. <em>Heilbronn Characters<\/em>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (with Hy Ginsberg and V. Kumar Murty),<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 52, No. 3, July 2015, 465&#8211;496. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cems.uvm.edu\/~rfoote\/bull1492.pdf\">(pdf file)<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cems.uvm.edu\/~rfoote\/Heilbronn-final-version-updated.pdf\">(pdf file with minor corrections)<\/a><br><br>12. <em>Mathematics and Complex Systems,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>Science,&nbsp; Vol 318, October 19, 2007, pp. 410&#8211;412.&nbsp; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/318\/5849\/410?ijkey=TLNvZp2Pcm\/2o&amp;keytype=ref&amp;siteid=sci\">abstract<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/318\/5849\/410?ijkey=TLNvZp2Pcm\/2o&amp;keytype=ref&amp;siteid=sci\">full text<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"http:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/rfoote\/files\/2024\/01\/Burnside-Baer-Suzuki-Thompson.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:200px\" aria-label=\"PDF embed\"><\/object><a href=\"http:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/rfoote\/files\/2024\/01\/Burnside-Baer-Suzuki-Thompson.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download>13. Notes on Theorems of Burnside Baer-Suzuki and Thompson<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"http:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/rfoote\/files\/2025\/11\/Wielandt-theorem-on-automorphism-towers.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:200px\" aria-label=\"PDF embed\"><\/object><a href=\"http:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/rfoote\/files\/2025\/11\/Wielandt-theorem-on-automorphism-towers.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download>14. Wielandt&#8217;s  Theorem on Automorphism Towers<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1714\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/rfoote\/files\/2021\/05\/Dummit-Foote-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/rfoote\/files\/2021\/05\/Dummit-Foote-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/rfoote\/files\/2021\/05\/Dummit-Foote-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/rfoote\/files\/2021\/05\/Dummit-Foote-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/rfoote\/files\/2021\/05\/Dummit-Foote-2048x1371.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/rfoote\/files\/2021\/05\/Dummit-Foote-1568x1050.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong><em>Richard Foote (left) and David Dummit outside the UVM Math\/Stat Dept.<br>T-shirt courtesy of Tufts University Mathematics Graduate Students soccer team<\/em><br><em>(Foote showing the reverse side of the T-shirt)<br>Photo, taken by Meghan Kelly, courtesy of David Dummit<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-atomic-blocks-ab-column ab-block-layout-column\"><div class=\"ab-block-layout-column-inner\" style=\"text-align:left\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/rfoote\/files\/2021\/04\/richard.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-91\" style=\"width:301px;height:271px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>RICHARD M. FOOTE, Ph.D.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Emeritus Professor of Mathematics<br>Department of Mathematics and Statistics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>AREAS OF EXPERTISE:<\/strong><br>group theory and applications, algebraic number theory<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"571\" height=\"707\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/rfoote\/files\/2021\/04\/book_cover.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-98\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>Abstract Algebra, Third Edition<\/em><\/strong><br>by David Dummit and Richard Foote<br>John Wiley and Sons, Inc.,&nbsp; 2004,&nbsp; pp. 1&#8211;932.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"http:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/rfoote\/files\/2025\/12\/errata_3rd_edition.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:200px\" aria-label=\"PDF embed\"><\/object><a href=\"http:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/rfoote\/files\/2025\/12\/errata_3rd_edition.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download>Errata to Third Edition<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Third Edition of Abstract Algebra is widely available &#8212; see link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiley.com\/WileyCDA\/WileyTitle\/productCd-0471433349.html\">Wiley<\/a><br>1. Table of Contents and Preface to the Third Edition (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cems.uvm.edu\/~rfoote\/web_pref.pdf\">pdf file<\/a> )<br><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"386\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/rfoote\/files\/2021\/05\/aacoverm.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-103\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>Abstract Algebra, Second Edition<\/strong><\/em><br>by David Dummit and Richard Foote<br>John Wiley and Sons, Inc.,&nbsp; 1999,&nbsp; pp. 1&#8211;898.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Our book was first published by Prentice-Hall, but is now being sold by John Wiley.&nbsp;The Wiley version of the Second Edition is identical to the Prentice-Hall Second Edition, except that some corrections have been made in the Wiley printings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Table of Contents and Preface to the Second Edition (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cems.uvm.edu\/~rfoote\/p4to15.pdf\">pdf file<\/a> )<br>2. Errata to the Prentice-Hall printing only (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cems.uvm.edu\/~rfoote\/errata3p.dvi\">dvi file<\/a> ) or (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cems.uvm.edu\/~rfoote\/errata2p.pdf\">pdf file<\/a> )<br>3. 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