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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

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

And, in complete opposition to the usual practice, we shall not choose a relatively simple group formation as our point of departure, but shall begin with highly organised, lasting and artificial groups.

From Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego by Freud, Sigmund

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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