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

The nature of such limits is not to be determined by the introspective results of experiments in which the observer has endeavored to hold together the largest possible number of elements in a simple group.

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

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

There would then have crept into human experience the necessity for something of common action among a wider range than the simple group.

From Folklore as an Historical Science by George Laurence Gomme

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