The Finite Simple Groups

This book is intended as an introduction to all the finite simple groups.During the monumental struggle classify the finites imple groups(and indeed since), a huge amount of information about these groups has been accumulated. Conveying this information to the next generation of students and researchers, not to mention those who might wish to apply this knowledge, has become a major challenge. With the publication of the two volumes by Aschbacher and Smith [12, 13] in 2004 we can reasonably...