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simple group

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noun

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


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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

In the first place it was in its origin not a political but an industrial organisation—a simple group of guilds invested with the sovereign authority.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

Except when n = 4 the alternating group is a simple group.

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

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)

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