Finite Simple Groups

Famous quotes containing the words finite, simple and/or groups:

    “God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.”
    —George Berkeley (1685–1753)

    “The threadbare trees, so poor and thin,
    They are no wealthier than I;
    But with as brave a core within
    They rear their boughs to the October sky.
    Poor knights they are which bravely wait
    The charge of Winter’s cavalry,
    Keeping a simple Roman state,
    Discumbered of their Persian luxury.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America.”
    —Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)