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Intermediate Group Theory (4)

Posted on October 4, 2012 by limsup

Applications We’ll use the results that we obtained in the previous two posts to obtain some very nice results about finite groups. Example 1. A finite group G of order p2 is isomorphic to either Z/p2 or (Z/p) × (Z/p). In particular, it … Continue reading →

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Intermediate Group Theory (0)

Posted on September 30, 2012 by limsup

Let’s take stock of what we know about group theory so far in the first series. We defined a group, which is a set endowed with a binary operation satisfying 3 properties. For each group, we considered subsets which could … Continue reading →

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