Symmetric Generation of Groups: With Applications to Many of the Sporadic Finite Simple Groups

by Robert T. Curtis

Some of the most beautiful mathematical objects found in the last forty years are the sporadic simple groups. But gaining familiarity with these groups presents problems for two reasons. Firstly, they were discovered in many different ways, so to understand their constructions in depth one needs to study lots of different techniques. Secondly, since each of them is in a sense recording some exceptional symmetry in spaces of certain dimensions, they...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052185721X
• ISBN13: 9780521857215
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.3"