17 Sep
2015
17 Sep
'15
7:47 p.m.
On 9/18/15, Warren D Smith <warren.wds@gmail.com> wrote:
... Indeed, I've never even seen any simple answer to the question: "how, exactly, are simple groups glued together to build all other finite groups?" These gluings can sometimes be very messy and hard to be confident you've really found them all.
Last time (quite a few years ago, admittedly) I asked a group-theorist about this, his answer was that this question constitutes the next "last great problem" on the agenda. WFL