The Finite Simple Groups

• Main Author: Wilson, Robert A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2009.
• Series: Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 251
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Algebra.; Group theory.; Topological groups.; Lie groups.; Group Theory and Generalizations.; Topological Groups, Lie Groups.

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...