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This is an oft-quoted excerpt from John Thompson's article "Finite Non-Solvable Groups": “... the classification of finite simple groups is an exercise in taxonomy. This is obvious to the ...

Let $g \geq 2$ be an integer and consider the symmetric group $S_n$ where $n = 2g+1$ or $n = 2g+2$ as a subgroup of the symplectic group $\mathrm{Sp}_{2g}(\mathbb{F}_2)$ via the standard ...

Edit 20/12: I added a more precise question at the bottom of the post. Given a finite group $G$ and a prime $p$, we want to prove that $G$ has a $p$-subgroup $P$ such that $|G:P|$ is not divisible by $...