Philip Hall Lecture Notes on Group Theory – Part XIVa

Philip Hall Lecture Notes on Group Theory – Part XIVa

Hall, Philip, 1904-1982

This material is a set of unpublished, hand-written lecture notes composed by Philip Hall (1904-1982). They were written in the 1960s at the University of Cambridge, where Hall was a professor at King’s College.

Part XIVa


§14 Some Special p-Groups (pp. 117-122)

Hall, Philip, 1904-1982

The pages belong to Edward Spitznagel, Washington University Professor of Mathematics, and are xerographic reproductions made from originals held by (and with permission of) John G. Thompson, a contemporary and correspondent of Hall.

1951-1967

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