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I was just going through the 3rd Proof of Sylow's theorem given in the "Topics In Algebra" Book by I.N. Herstein. It looked very interesting and i really liked its Philosophy. My question what is its significance, and how can it be applied to problems, or something else.
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Hi.

I was just going through the 3rd Proof of Sylow's theorem given in the "Topics In Algebra" Book by I.N. Herstein. It looked very interesting and i really liked its Philosophy. My question what is its significance, and how can it be applied to problems, or something else.
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Sylow's theorem 3rd Proof Page 96 I.N.Herstein

Hi--

  I was just going through the 3rd Proof of Sylow's theorem given in the "Topics In Algebra" Book by I.N. Herstein. It looked very interesting and i really liked its Philosophy. My question what is its significance, and how can it be applied to problems, or something else.