Simple Lie Groups

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

    How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers’ names.
    Alice Walker (b. 1944)

    A lie has short legs.
    —Estonian. Trans. by Ilse Lehiste (1993)

    Belonging to a group can provide the child with a variety of resources that an individual friendship often cannot—a sense of collective participation, experience with organizational roles, and group support in the enterprise of growing up. Groups also pose for the child some of the most acute problems of social life—of inclusion and exclusion, conformity and independence.
    Zick Rubin (20th century)