A Brief History of the Sporadic Simple Groups

Daniel Gorenstein

A chapter in The Gelfand Mathematical Seminars, 1990–1992, 1993, pp 137-143 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In these lectures I shall give a brief historical summary of the 26 sporadic simple groups. Apart from the Mathieu groups, their discovery was closely intertwined with theoretical developments in finite simple group theory from 1950–1980, and the historical perspective provides an understanding of key aspects of the classification of the finite simple groups. The material to be covered here is primarily an extraction from a fuller discussion of the known simple groups that appears in Chapter 2 of my book, Finite Simple Groups, Plenum (New York), 1982.

Keywords: Conjugacy Class; Simple Group; Double Cover; Finite Simple Group; Sporadic Group (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-0345-2_8

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