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Tag Archives: Jordan’s theorem
An apology
What would life be like if I could remember all the things I ever knew? Yesterday I was led to something I posted here twelve years ago. This was based on a talk to the London Algebra Colloquium by Mark … Continue reading
Posted in doing mathematics
Tagged conjugacy supercommuting graph, Jordan's theorem, Mark Wildon
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Perth, week 1
The first week of the visit is over. The weather has been quite cold, but it is likely to improve as time goes on. The best day so far was yesterday, when we went to Yanchep National Park and had … Continue reading
Posted in doing mathematics, exposition
Tagged derangements, H. Zantema, Jordan's theorem
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Boris Weisfeiler
This is an extraordinary story which I learned about only last week. In the 1960s, while Donald Higman in the USA was developing the theory of coherent configurations, Boris Weisfeiler was introducing the equivalent notion of cellular algebras in the … Continue reading
Posted in history, mathematics
Tagged cellular algebra, Chile, Jordan's theorem, linear groups
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