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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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A brief history of the classification of the finite simple groups
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Abstract:

We present some highlights of the 110-year project to classify the finite simple groups.
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Additional Information
  • Ronald Solomon
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
  • MR Author ID: 164705
  • Email: solomon@math.ohio-state.edu
  • Received by editor(s): September 18, 2000
  • Received by editor(s) in revised form: December 15, 2000
  • Published electronically: March 27, 2001
  • Additional Notes: Research partially supported by an NSF grant
  • © Copyright 2001 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 315-352
  • MSC (2000): Primary 20D05
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-01-00909-0
  • MathSciNet review: 1824893