AuthorGriess, Robert L. author
TitleTwelve Sporadic Groups [electronic resource] / by Robert L. Griess
ImprintBerlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1998
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03516-0
Descript V, 169 p. online resource

SUMMARY

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CONTENT

1. Background from General Group Theory -- 2. Assumed Results about Particular Groups -- 3. Codes -- 4. The Hexacode -- 5. The Golay Code -- 6. Subgroups of M24 -- 7. The Ternary Golay Code and 2ยทM12 -- 8. Lattices -- 9. The Leech Lattice and Conway Groups -- 10. Subgroups of the Conway Groups; the Simple Groups of Higman-Sims, McLaughlin, Hall-Janko and Suzuki; Local Subgroups; Conjugacy Classes -- 11. Generation Three of the Happy Family and the Pariahs -- Appendix. Some Comments on the Atlas -- References -- List of Group Theoretic Notations -- The Orders of the Finite Simple Groups


SUBJECT

  1. Mathematics
  2. Group theory
  3. Mathematics
  4. Group Theory and Generalizations