Held Group

In the mathematical field of group theory, the Held group He (found by Dieter Held (1969)) is one of the 26 sporadic simple groups, and has order

210 · 33 · 52 · 73 · 17
= 4030387200
≈ 4 · 109.

The Held group has Schur multiplier of order 1 and outer automorphism group of order 2.

Read more about Held Group:  History, Representations, Presentation, Maximal Subgroups

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