On the converse of a theorem of Schur. (Q359609)

A classical theorem of Schur shows that the commutator subgroup of a group whose center is of finite index, is finite. Converse results have been proved by several authors with B. H. Neumann proving one of the earliest versions. In this paper, the authors give a really short proof of such a generalized converse theorem. Further, they give an example of a finite, nilpotent group \(G\) with \(|G/Z(G)|=16=|[G,G]|^2\) for which \([G,G]\) is not cyclic, answering a question of Manoj Yadav.