Galois and the simple group of order 60 (Q6145603)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7785673
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7785673 |
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Galois and the simple group of order 60 (English)
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9 January 2024
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In his last letter to Auguste Chevalier, Galois claimed that, in our terminology, the smallest simple group has order \(60\). In this interesting article, the author argues convincingly that a table of factorizations of certain numbers up to 60 found on a fragment of a torn paper is related to this problem, and that Galois could indeed have given a proof.
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Galois theory
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simple groups
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polynomials
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