Tag Archives: Alexander Konovalov

Group names

Posted on 06/06/2016 by

Recently, I discussed Alexander Konovalov’s crowd-sourced project to verify and extend the known values of the function gnu(n), the number of groups of order n. A month and a half ago (but I have only just noticed it), Alexander raised … Continue reading →

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More groups

Posted on 20/05/2016 by

The title reminds me of the occasion when my academic grandfather lectured to the London Mathematical Society on “Moore graphs”. Unfortunately, someone got it wrong, and his lecture was billed as “More graphs”. But here I really do mean what … Continue reading →

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New Year thoughts

Posted on 02/01/2016 by

It was with some relief that I saw that this year WordPress have not sent a summary of the year just past. So I was able to look at the statistics and make my own judgement. Numbers of visitors and … Continue reading →

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