15 December 1948[1]) is an American mathematician specializing in the theory of finite groups.
Solomon studied as an undergraduate at Queens College and received a PhD 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.
In 1972, he began his participation in the classification program for finite simple groups, after hearing a lecture by Daniel Gorenstein.
In 2012, he was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
With Daniel Gorenstein and Richard Lyons he wrote, and is continuing to write now with Inna Capdeboscq, a series on the second-generation proof of the classification program for finite simple groups.