Finite Simple Groups

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

    Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left for the others.
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    I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on the simple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.
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    Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
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