Finite Simple Groups : Thirty Years of the Atlas and Beyond : international conference, Finite Simple Groups: Thirty Years of the Atlas and Beyond, Celebrating the Atlases and Honoring John Conway, November 2-5, 2015, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ / Manjul Bhargava, Robert Guralnick, Gerhard Hiss, Klaus Lux, Pham Huu Tiep, editors.

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Finite Simple Groups: Thirty Years of the Atlas and Beyond (2015 : Princeton University) [Browse]
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English
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Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society, [2017]
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ix, 229 pages ; 26 cm

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    • Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society) ; v. 694. [More in this series]
    • Contemporary mathematics ; 694
    Summary note
    • A mathematics conference partially based on Atlas of finite groups, by John H. Conway, et al. (Oxford University Press, 1985).
    • A mathematics conference partially based on Atlas of finite groups, by John H. Conway, et al., and, An Atlas of Brauer Characters, by Christoph Jansen, et al.
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    Includes bibliographical references.
    Contents
    • Moonshine and the meaning of life / Yang-Hui He and John McKay
    • The Monster is fabulous / Simon P. Norton
    • Majorana representation of the Monster group / A. A. Ivanov
    • Letter to Donna Testerman / Jean-Pierre Serre
    • Reliability and reproducibility of Atlas information / Thomas Breuer, Gunter Malle and E. A. O'Brien
    • Characters and Brauer trees of the covering group of ²E₆(2) / Frank Lübeck
    • Maximal subgroups of sporadic groups / Robert A. Wilson
    • Construction of the Thompson Chain of subgroups of the Conway group [dot]O and complete graphs on /n/ letters / R. T. Curtis
    • Conway's groupoid and its relatives / Nick Gill, Neil I. Gillespie, Cheryl E. Praeger and Jason Semeraro
    • The subgroup structure of finite groups / Michael Aschbacher
    • Some remarks on maximal subgroups of finite classical groups / Kay Magaard
    • Toward a classification of endotrivial modules / Jon F. Carlson
    • Some remarks on global/local conjectures / Gabriel Navarro
    • Minuscule weights and Chevalley groups / Meinolf Geck
    • A method for building permutation representations of finitely presented groups / Gabriele Nebe, Richard Parker and Sarah Rees
    • Character ratios for finite groups of Lie type, and applications / Martin W. Liebeck
    • Conjugacy classes, growth and complexity / Aner Shalev
    • Permutation groups where non-trivial elements have few fixed points / Rebecca Waldecker.
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    ISBN
    • 9781470436780 ((paperback : alkaline paper))
    • 1470436787 ((paperback : alkaline paper))
    LCCN
    2017001195
    OCLC
    968346187
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