Seminar series
Date
Wed, 10 Mar 2010
Time
11:30 -
12:30
Location
ChCh, Tom Gate, Room 2
Speaker
Peter Neumann
Organisation
University of Oxford
The first part of Galois' Second Mémoire, less than three pages of manuscript written in 1830, is devoted to an amazing insight, far ahead of its time. Translated into modern mathematical language (and out of French), it is the theorem that a primitive soluble finite permutation group has prime-power degree. This, and Galois' ideas, and counterexamples to some of
them, will be my theme.