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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Finite Simple Groups
  name:
    name part: Wilson, Robert A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxk
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 298 p. online resource.
  abstract: The finite simple groups are the building blocks from which all the finite groups are made and as such they are objects of fundamental importance throughout mathematics. The classification of the finite simple groups was one of the great mathematical achievements of the twentieth century, yet these groups remain difficult to study which hinders applications of the classification. This textbook brings the finite simple groups to life by giving concrete constructions of most of them, sufficient to illuminate their structure and permit real calculations both in the groups themselves and in the underlying geometrical or algebraic structures. This is the first time that all the finite simple groups have been treated together in this way and the book points out their connections, for example between exceptional behaviour of generic groups and the existence of sporadic groups, and discusses a number of new approaches to some of the groups. Many exercises of varying difficulty are provided. The Finite Simple Groups is aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students in algebra as well as professional mathematicians and scientists who use groups and want to apply the knowledge which the classification has given us. The main prerequisite is an undergraduate course in group theory up to the level of Sylow’s theorems.
  table of contents: The alternating groups -- The classical groups -- The exceptional groups -- The sporadic groups.
  note: by Robert A. Wilson.
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Algebra
  subject:
    topic: Group theory
  subject:
    topic: Topological groups
  subject:
    topic: Lie groups
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Algebra
  subject:
    topic: Group Theory and Generalizations
  subject:
    topic: Topological Groups, Lie Groups
  classification: QA150-272
  classification: 512
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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      title: Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 251
  identifier: 9781848009882
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-988-2
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    record change date: 20151204160018.0
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