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This chapter begins by reviewing some basic group theory—subgroups, quotients, homomorphisms, and isomorphisms—in order to have a basis for discussing Lie groups in general and simple Lie groups in particular.
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Stillwell, J. (2008). Groups. In: Naive Lie Theory. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78214-0_2
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