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Oct 4, 2021 at 17:09	history	edited	Martin Sleziak	CC BY-SA 4.0	http -> https (the question was bumped anyway)
Nov 8, 2015 at 15:27	comment	added	Geoff Robinson		Thompson's $N$-group papers(s) were arguably more fundamental than the odd order Theorem (he got the Fields medal for the $N$-group work, though Feit-Thompson had already received the Cole prize in algebra for the Odd Order Theorem)- they certainly provided a template for CFSG, though some refinements were necessary. For the record an $N$-group is a finite group in which every non-identity solvable subgroup has a solvable normalizer, and Thompson classified the simple $N$-groups, which include all minimal finite simple groups.
Nov 8, 2015 at 14:06	history	edited	Tony Huynh	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 185 characters in body
Nov 8, 2015 at 10:59	comment	added	Geoff Robinson		@PatrickT: This was the famous proof of the solvability of groups of odd order. I had not heard that story. The paper was a whole issue of that journal. I don't think John Thompson published any paper in the Annals, although he was definitely on the editorial board at some point.
Nov 8, 2015 at 10:45	comment	added	Igor Rivin		@GeoffRobinson The story I had heard (many years ago) was that the authors had promised the paper to an editor at the Pacific Journal for some reason...
Nov 8, 2015 at 9:29	comment	added	PatrickT		Shouldn't there be a clearer reference to this article other than the authors' names?
Nov 8, 2015 at 1:46	comment	added	Geoff Robinson		The extreme length of the paper (by contemporaneous standards) was a factor in where this paper ended up, I believe.
S Nov 6, 2015 at 20:35	history	answered	Igor Rivin	CC BY-SA 3.0
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