Boekdetails
Formaat
Kindle
Pagina's
188
Taal
Engels
Gepubliceerd
Mar 29, 2011
Uitgever
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0511892853
ISBN-13
9780511892851
Beschrijving
In 1963 Walter Feit and John G. Thompson published a proof of a 1911 conjecture by Burnside that every finite group of odd order is solvable. This proof, which ran for 255 pages, was a tour-de-force of mathematics and inspired intense effort to classify finite simple groups. This book presents a revision and expansion of the first half of the proof of the Feit-Thompson theorem. Simpler, more detailed proofs are provided for some intermediate theorems. Recent results are used to shorten other proofs.