Group Theory, Beijing 1984 Proceedings of an International Symposium
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1185 Group Theory, Beijing 1984 Proceedings of an International Symposium held in Beijing, Aug. 27-Sep. 8, 1984
Edited by Tuan Hsio-Fu
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York Tokyo
Lecture Notes in Mathematics Edited by A. Oold and B. Eckmann
1185 Group Theory, Beijing 1984 Proceedings of an International Symposium held in Beijing, Aug. 27-Sep. 8, 1984
Edited by Tuan Hsio-Fu
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York Tokyo
Editor
TUAN Hsio-Fu Department of Mathematics, Peking University Beijing, The People's Republic of China
Mathematics Subject Classification (1980): 05-xx, 12F-xx, 14Kxx, 17Bxx, 20-xx ISBN 3-540-16456-1 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York Tokyo ISBN 0-387-16456-1 Springer-Verlag New York Heidelberg Berlin Tokyo
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PREFACE From August 27 to September 8, 1984 there was held in Peking University, Beijing an International Symposium on Group Theory. As well said by Hermann Wey1: "Symmetry is a vast subject significant in art and nature.
Whenever you have to do with a structure
endowed entity, try to determine the group of those transformations which leave all structural relations undisturbed."
This passage underlies that
the group concept is one of the most fundamental and most important in modern mathematics and its applications. branch of mathematics.
Group theory is indeed a vast
The chief topics of the Symposium were finite
groups and their connections with combinatorics, classical groups, algebraic groups and Lie groups (with emphasis on connections with algebra) . The Symposium was sponsored by our Ministry of Education.
It was
conducted by an Organization Committee consisting of seven Chinese professors of group theory: Tuan Hsio Fu (Duan Xuefu)
(Peking University), Chairman
Cao Xihua (East China Normal University), Vice Chairman Wan Zhexian (Institute of System Science, Academia Sinica), Vice Chairman Yen Zhida (Nankai University) Zhang Yuanda (Wuhan University) Zeng Kencheng (Graduate School, China University of Science and Technology) Wang Efang (Peking University) Professor Hua LooKeng and Professor S.S.Chern kindly gave their advice and support to the Symposium. The purpose of the Symposium was to provide a timely forum for the exchange of information and encouragement of international dialogue. For this purpose, we invited eight wellknown mathematicians from abroad: John G. Thompson (University of Cambridge, U.K.) Michael Aschbacher (California Institute of Technology, U.S.A.) Charles W. Curtis
