Mark Ronan

Mark Andrew Ronan (born 1947) is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Honorary Professor of Mathematics at University College London.

In addition to his research papers, Ronan's popular account of the quest to discover and classify all the finite building blocks for symmetry (the finite simple groups) was published in 2006.

In 2008 it formed the basis for a series of BBC radio broadcasts.

In his research work he is an expert on the theory of buildings, with a standard text on the subject, now being reissued in paperback.

Lectures on Buildings, original edition, Academic Press 1989;[1] paperback edition, updated and revised, University of Chicago Press 2009.