Content of the book “Group Theory Seminar Lectures:1960-1961”

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Is there any one who read the book "Group Theory Seminar Lectures:1960-1961"? Please tell me the content about this book.

We know in 60s, there are many important results. N. Blackburn is one of my favorite group theorists. I want to know the content of this book. But there is no information I can find.

Answer 1

Preface: This document is being issued at the end of a Special year program on the theory of groups at the University of Chicago from October 1, 1960 to June 30, 1961. It contains summaries of papers presented at the weekly seminar which was one of the principal features of the program.

Since John Thompson does not plan to submit his paper on Groups of odd order $p^aq^b$ for publication in the near future it is presented here in greater detail than the other papers. The great majority of the summaries are of results to appear within a year.

The mathematical community is grateful to the National Science Foundation, the OPffice of Scientific Research of the Air Force, and the Esso Foundation for their support of the program.

-- James Boen, July 1, 1961.

Table of contents:

• N Blackburn, $p$-groups of maximal class (5 pages)
• G Higman, Enumerating $p$-groups (7 pages)
• W Feit– JG Thomspon, Groups with a faithful rep of degree $\leq \frac{p-1}{2}$ (2 pages)
• M Suzuki, On finite CN groups of even order and related groups (3 pages)
• JG Thompson, On groups of odd order $p^a q^b$ (20 pages)
• JA Green, Representations and Characters (9 pages)
• J Alperin, Automorphisms of Solvable Groups (3 pages)
• DG Higman, Flag-transitive groups (3 pages)
• N Ito, On a class of doubly transitive groups (2 pages)
• D Gorenstein–J Walker, On finite groups with dihedral sylow 2-subgroups (7 pages)
• D Tamari, Monoids and word problem for groups (1 page)
• N Jacobson, Cayley Planes (1 page)
• N Blackburn, Cernikov $p$-groups (1 page)
• E Parker, Orthogonal latin squares of order 10 (2 pages)
• H Wielandt, Transfer theorems (4 pages)
• G Higman, Suzuki 2-groups (1 page)
• R Brauer, Groups of even order (4 pages)
• J Britton, The word problem (5 pages)
• P Fong, Modular representations of solvable groups (1 page)
• OH Kegel, On subnormal subgroups of finite groups (5 pages)
• H Wielandt, General theory of permutation groups (6 pages)
• M Suzuki, Groups with a partition (1 page)