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See also: List of abstract algebra topics, List of category theory topics, list of Lie group topics.
History, major contributors
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange
- Niels Abel
- Évariste Galois
- Augustin Louis Cauchy
- Arthur Cayley
- Otto Ludwig Hölder
- Camille Jordan
- Ludwig Sylow
- Ferdinand Georg Frobenius
- Sophus Lie
- Felix Klein
- William Burnside
- Richard Dedekind
- David Hilbert
- Max August Zorn
- John Thompson
- Martin Dunwoody
- John Horton Conway
Famous problems
- Classification of finite simple groups
- Word problem for groups
- Subset sum problem
- Burnside's problem
- Whitehead problem
- Herzog-Schönheim conjecture
Applications
- Computer algebra system
- Exponentiating by squaring
- Knapsack problem
- Shor's algorithm
- Cryptography
- Standard Model
Definitions in common with other mathematical ideas
- Binary operation
- Bilinear operator
- Commutative
- Associativity
- Equivalence relation
- Equivalence class
- Bijection
- Multiplication table
- Lattice
- Up to
- Congruence relation
- Prime number
Mathematical objects which have (or make use of) a group operation
- Number
- Real number
- Integer
- Modular arithmetic
- Matrix
- Tensor
- Quaternion
- Hilbert space
- Pauli matrices
- Gell-Mann matrices
- Banach-Tarski paradox
- Galois group
- Dimensional analysis
- Lie group
- Algebraic group
- Elliptic curve
- Abelian variety
- Group object
- Category of groups
Abstract algebra
- Field
- Finite field
- Galois theory
- Group with operators
- Linear algebra
- Magma
- Module
- Monoid
- Monoid ring
- Quandle
- Quasigroup
- Ring
- Semigroup
- Vector space
Other mathematical disciplines which make great use of groups
- Geometry
- Algebraic geometry
- Algebraic topology
- Topological group
- Fundamental group
- Discrete space
- Homology
- Minkowski's theorem
Basic properties of groups and subgroups
- Elementary group theory
- Identity element
- Reciprocal
- Subgroup
- Coset
- Transversal
- Lagrange's theorem
- Euler's theorem
- Normal subgroup
- Hamiltonian group
- Characteristic subgroup
- Torsion subgroup
- Centralizer and normalizer
- Center of a group
- Commutator
- Derived group
- Conjugation of isometries in Euclidean space
- Conjugacy class
- Conjugate closure
- Core (group)
- Composition series
- Zassenhaus lemma, Butterfly lemma
- Schreier refinement theorem
- Fitting subgroup, generalized Fitting subgroup
- p-core
Group homomorphisms
- Automorphism
- Automorphism group
- Group homomorphism
- Group isomorphism
- Factor group
- Quotient group
- Homomorphism
- Order automorphism
- Isomorphism theorem
- Fundamental theorem on homomorphisms
- Inner automorphism
- Outer automorphism group
Basic group structures and operations
- Generating set of a group
- Sylow theorem
- Product of group subsets
- Direct product
- Direct sum
- Direct sum of groups
- Subdirect sum
- Semidirect product
- Group extension
- Central extension
- Extension problem
- Schur multiplier
- Group cohomology
- Wreath product
- Free product
- Free group
- Free abelian group
- Presentation of a group
Basic building block of groups, and classifications
- Examples of groups
- P-group
- Cyclic group
- Abelian group
- Finitely generated abelian group
- Nilpotent group
- Solvable group
- Dihedral group
- Dicyclic group
- Klein four-group
- Group representation
- Pro-finite group
- Locally cyclic group
- List of small groups
- Divisible group
Simple groups and their classification
- Simple group
- Symmetric group
- Alternating group
- General linear group
- Special linear group
- Projective group
- Mathieu group
- Janko group
- Conway group
- Fischer group
- Thompson group (finite)
- Tits group
- Baby Monster group
- Monster group
- Bimonster
- Lie group
- Simple Lie group
- Weyl group
- Algebraic group
- Group of Lie type, Chevalley group
- Feit-Thompson theorem
Understanding groups as permutation and symmetry groups
- Rubik's Cube
- Symmetry
- Symmetry group
- Euclidean group
- Frieze group
- Wallpaper group
- Crystallographic group
- Crystallographic point group, Schoenflies notation
- Space group
- Coxeter group
- Discrete group
- Frobenius group
- Fuchsian group
- Arithmetic group
- Homogeneous space
- Permutation
- Permutation group
- Symmetric group
- Cayley's Theorem
- Even and odd permutations
- Strong generating set
- Braid group
- Group action
- Burnside's lemma
- Steiner system
- Geometric group theory
Group representations
See also list of harmonic analysis and representation theory topics
- Representation theory
- Affine representation
- Projective representation
- Maschke's theorem
- Schur's lemma
- Character theory
- Monstrous moonshine
Computational group theory
Other topics
- Frattini subgroup
- Transfer (group theory)
- Growth rate
- Heisenberg group, discrete Heisenberg group
- Congruence subgroup
- Commensurability (mathematics)
- Compactly generated group
- Complete group
- Thompson groups
- Tarski monster group
- Amenable group
- Compact group
- Covering a group by cosets or subgroups
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