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Enormous Theorem

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  • John Griggs Thompson
    John Griggs Thompson

    …this problem, the so-called “Enormous Theorem,” was announced in 1981 and represents the combined efforts of hundreds of mathematicians in separate journal articles consuming well over 10,000 pages. Thompson made further contributions to Galois theory, representation theory, coding theory, and, working on the proof of the nonexistence of a…

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    …this problem, the so-called “Enormous Theorem,” was announced in 1981 and represents the combined efforts of hundreds of mathematicians in separate journal articles consuming well over 10,000 pages. Thompson made further contributions to Galois theory, representation theory, coding theory, and, working on the proof of the nonexistence of a…

    Read More