Commentary on “A brief history of the classification of the finite simple groups” by Ronald Solomon
Author:
Robert M. Guralnick
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 55 (2018), 451-452
MSC (2010):
Primary 20D05
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/bull/1638
Published electronically:
July 18, 2018
Link to article that is the subject of this commentary:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.), 38 (2001), no. 3, 315--352
MathSciNet review:
3854073
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Abstract: Immediately following the commentary below, the previously published article is reprinted in its entirety: Ronald Solomon, “A brief history of the classification of the finite simple groups”, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S) 38 (2001), no. 3, 315–352.
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Robert M. Guralnick
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-2532
MR Author ID:
78455
Email:
guralnic@usc.edu
Received by editor(s):
July 2, 2018
Published electronically:
July 18, 2018
Additional Notes:
The author was partially supported by the NSF grant DMS-1600056.
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