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

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

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 Horatio Robert Forbes Brown

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