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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Re: great uniqueness theorems
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Date: Wed, 22-Jan-86 09:00:26 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 22 09:00:26 1986
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Well, there's the classification of the finite simple groups.
This theorem was recently discussed in an article in Scientific
American.  It is actually the result obtained by looking
at a collection of some 500 journal articles with a total of
15,000 pages or so.  Its result is something like "All finite
simple groups fall into one of the following classes, except
for the following specific groups: ..."