Twelve sporadic groups
By: Robert L. Griess, Jr.
Series: Springer monographs in mathematics
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
Subjects: Finite simple groups
Description: This text provides an extensive,leisurely and rigorous treatment of the twelve sporadic simple groups which form the first two generations of the Happy Family. The author's treatment of coding and lattice theory starts with basic definitions and goes far enough to prove suitable existence and uniqueness theorems for the Golay code and Leech lattice. Furthermore, full definitions and elementary arguments are given most of the time. The text is meant to be sensitive to beginners, like graduate students with some background in finite group theory, mathematicians in other fields and mathematical physicists.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [154]-160) and index.