Symmetric generation of groups : with applications to many of the sporadic finite simple groups / Robert T. Curtis
- Author
- Curtis, Robert, 1946-
- Published
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 317 pages) : illustrations (some color).
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- Language Note
- Parallel English and Spanish texts = Textos paralelos en inglés y español.
Texto en inglés y español.
Bilingüe, Inglés/Español. - Contents
- Motivation -- Involutory symmetric generators -- Non-involutory symmetric generators.
- Summary
- Motivated by initial results which showed that the Mathieu groups can be generated by highly symmetrical sets of elements, which themselves have a natural geometric definition, the author develops from scratch the notion of symmetric generation.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781107089709 (electronic bk.)
1107089700 (electronic bk.)
9780511661792 (e-book)
0511661797 (e-book)
9781107095991
1107095999
9781448867097
1448867096
1139883275
9781139883276
1107101603
9781107101609
1107092949
9781107092945
9780521857215
052185721X - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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