simple group

American  

noun

Mathematics.

1. a group that has no normal subgroup except the group itself and the identity.

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simple group

In further time-honoured Fifa fashion, what should have been a simple group stage was needlessly complicated.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2020

At first glance, the cover photo looked like a simple group shot of the characters, but to me the photo-montage represents the very essence of the deceptiveness of reality that is the Matrix.

From Time Magazine Archive

But this is not the sole determinant of the numerical limits of the simple group in such objective rhythms.

From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Münsterberg, Hugo

Cimabue has followed the Greek formula, and his simple group appears to me to have great feeling and simplicity.

From Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

A simple group, since it contains no self-conjugate subgroup distinct from itself, is necessarily a perfect group.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various