Graduate Texts in Mathematics; Permutation Groups; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Notation; 1 The Basic Ideas; 2 Examples and Constructions; 3 The Action of a Permutation Group; 4 The Structure of a Primitive Group; 5 Bounds on Orders of Permutation Groups; 6 The Mathieu Groups and Steiner Systems; 7 Multiply Transitive Groups; 8 The Structure of the Symmetric Groups; 9 Examples and Applications of Infinite Permutation Groups; Appendix A Classification of Finite Simple Groups; Appendix B The Primitive Permutation Groups of Degree Less than 1000; References; Index
