Space · region

Algebra and groups

Symmetry and structure. The largest collaborative proof in history lives here, along with problems that have been open since Galois.

Mathematics Subject Classification: 08, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 20, 22.

Problems

Solving the quintic by radicals (refuted)
Classification of finite simple groups (solved)
Inverse Galois problem (open)
Burnside problem (refuted)

Part of Mathematics.

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