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Known for solvable groups (Shafarevich) and for all but one of the sporadic groups; the Mathieu group M23 is the famous holdout. Most methods use rigidity, building extensions from the geometry of covering spaces.

Posed 19th century; systematic work from Hilbert and Emmy Noether.

What would settle it

Lean statement in formal-conjectures

Sources

Algebra and groups · Mathematics