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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

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 Gomme, George Laurence

It is also to be noticed that a cyclical group is a simple group, since it has no continuous self-conjugate subgroup distinct from itself.

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

A simple group, as already defined, is one which has no self-conjugate subgroup.

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

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